McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 15 Apr 2020
The work product doctrine can protect documents primarily motivated by a corporation's involvement in or reasonable anticipation of litigation…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 23 Oct 2019
Unlike the absolute attorney-client privilege, adversaries can obtain a litigant's work product if they have "substantial need" for the work product…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 11 Sep 2019
Last week's Privilege Point described a Northern District of Illinois decision which applied the favorable "one of the significant purposes"…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 24 Jul 2019
The work product doctrine sometimes involves clients' primarily business motivation "morphing" into litigation-related motivation - thus entitling…
Greenberg Traurig LLP | USA | 17 Jul 2019
When does disclosure of attorney work product to a third party constitute waiver of the work-product doctrine? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court…
Troutman Pepper | USA | 26 Jun 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has adopted a new, expanded standard for preserving the protections of the attorney work-product doctrine, codified at…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 15 May 2019
In Washington Coalition for Open Government v. Pierce County, No. 50718-8-II, 2019 Wash. App. LEXIS 392 (Wash. Ct. App. Feb. 20, 2019), the court…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 8 May 2019
The common interest doctrine occasionally allows separately represented clients to avoid waiving their fragile privilege protection when sharing…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 13 Feb 2019
Under the common interest doctrine, separately represented clients can avoid the normal waiver implications of disclosing privileged communications to…
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 30 Jan 2019
Last week's Privilege Point discussed a New York federal court's and a New York state court's opposite positions on a key work product issue. Courts…