James MacDonald vs. Sally Wagenmaker, et.al., 2024 IL App (1st) 230089 (March 1, 2024) - Brief Summary - An Illinois appellate court reversed a discovery order compelling the defendant law firm to produce privileged...more
An appellate court in Illinois declined to expand the scope of the third-party beneficiary theory espoused in Pelham v. Griesheimer, 92 Ill.2d 13 (1982) and affirmed summary judgment in favor of the law firm and its partners....more
Elizabeth Holmes—founder of the now-defunct startup Theranos—is on trial for a host of fraud-related allegations. According to the charges brought by the federal government, Holmes and the co-accused Sunny Balwani knowingly...more
China Auto Logistics, Inc. v. DLA Piper, LLP, Case No. 2:20-cv-00646, USDC, Dist. Nevada, March 3, 2021 -
A Nevada federal judge tossed a legal malpractice suit against a global firm, finding that the firm was not subject...more
Sprengel v. Zbylut, California Second Appellate District Case No. B282129 (September 10, 2019) -
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A California appellate court recently extended the application of a longstanding "totality of the...more
Falk Pharma GMBH v. Generico, LLC, Nos. 2017-2312, 2017-2636, 2018-1320, 2018-2097, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 4859 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 8, 2019) -
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that a...more
Reynolds v. Henderson & Lyman, No. 17-1999, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 25850 (7th Cir. Sep. 12, 2018) -
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment to defendant law firm on the...more
Lynn v. George (2017) 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 817 -
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The California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District held in an action arising from an alleged partnership for buying and selling real property that...more
Stock v. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, __ N.Y.S.3d __, 2016 WL 3556655 (2016)
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A New York appellate court reversed the trial court's decision to compel disclosure of communications between...more
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The "common interest doctrine" generally protects attorney-client communications, even if such communications are disclosed to a third party, as long as the third party shares a common legal interest with...more
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Asset Purchaser ,
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Bank of America ,
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Mergers ,
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In Palmer v. Superior Court California's Second District Court of Appeal upheld the in-house counsel privilege for communications concerning a dispute with a current client and, in doing so, declined to adopt the "fiduciary...more