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Attorney-Client Privilege Work-Product Doctrine Motion to Compel

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Cooperation Credit and Attorney-Client Privilege: The Implications of Coburn

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Cognizant Technology’s Privilege Waiver - On February 1, 2022, the District of New Jersey ordered a company to produce internal investigation materials to two former executives indicted in connection with an alleged foreign...more

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NY Court Re-Affirms Privilege Protection for Personal Emails Sent by Law Firm Partner on Firm Email Account

Citing new deposition testimony, actor Justin Theroux in a recent motion asked the New York Supreme Court to reconsider its December 2020 denial of Theroux’s motion to compel production of emails that his neighbor, Norman...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Another Court Orders Production of Cybersecurity Firm’s Forensic Report in a Data Breach Case

Another district court just ordered the defendant in a data breach class action to turn over the forensic report it believed was entirely protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Update: Protecting Privilege: Top 10 Checklist for Cybersecurity Forensic Investigation Reports

In ongoing multidistrict litigation concerning Capital One’s 2019 data breach, Capital One succeeded in defeating a motion to compel disclosure of a privileged root cause analysis conducted by PwC. In contrast to an earlier...more

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Risks of Waiving Privilege for Third Party Litigants When Producing Documents to the Government

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Waiver of privilege and particularly inadvertent waiver of privilege is always a concern in e-discovery when producing documents to an outside party. Not only may your current litigation be affected but waiver may also affect...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC v. RPM International — A Cautionary Case Study on the Limits of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection

While much of the corporate legal world has been focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a little-noticed case working its way through the federal courts in Washington, D.C. threatens to whittle down the scope of...more

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Illinois Courts Deal With Privilege Presumptions: Part I

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All courts agree that litigants asserting attorney-client privilege or work product protection must establish the protection's applicability. But courts take different positions on whether any presumptions guide their...more

Weintraub Tobin

An Inadequate Privilege Log, Or Even The Failure To Serve A Privilege Log, Will Not Result In The Waiver Of Privilege And...

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In Catalina Island Yacht Club v. Superior Court (2015) 242 Cal.App.4th 1116, the California Court of Appeal (Fourth District, Division Three), squarely addressed the question: “May a trial court find a waiver of the...more

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Colorado Federal Court Rejects Attorney-Client Privilege for Communications Between Insurer’s Claims Adjuster and In-House Counsel

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In Olsen v. Owners Insurance Co., No. 1:18-cv-01665, 2019 WL 2502201 (D. Colo. June 17, 2019), the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado found that neither the attorney-client privilege nor the work-product...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - March 2018

The ninth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - October 2017

The eighth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - September 2017

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Jang v. Boston Scientific Corporation (No. 2016-1575, 9/29/17) (Prost, O'Malley, Chen) - Chen, J. Affirming denial of motion for JMOL, vacatur of verdict of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, and judgment of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - June 2017

The seventh edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The E-Discovery Digest - March 2017"

The sixth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses. ...more

Dechert LLP

Litigation Funder Communications Protected by the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine

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Addressing a novel issue in In re: International Oil Trading Company, LLC, 548 B.R. 825 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2016), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida recently denied in part an involuntary...more

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Why Every Data Breach Response Plan Should Involve Outside Counsel

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The importance of retaining outside counsel after a data breach was recently underscored in the Target data breach class-action litigation filed by the financial institutions. Plaintiffs filed a motion to compel Target to...more

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Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine Shield Forensic Data Breach Consultant’s Communications and Documents from...

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October 23, 2015, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey J. Keyes of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota determined that the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine shielded from disclosure...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - October 2015

In This Issue: - Attorney-Client Privilege/Work Product Decisions: ..Decisions Protecting Against Disclosure ..Decisions Ordering Disclosure Other - Spoliation Decisions: ..Spoliation Sanctions...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Rhode Island Supreme Court Addresses Deposition Conduct And Instructions Not To Answer

Rhode Island has long honored the late Professor Robert B. Kent’s teachings on civil procedure, including his opinions concerning depositions. In keeping with Professor Kent’s teachings, Rhode Island courts take the position...more

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