Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Apr. 4, 2015
Privilege when firms advise themselves
A recent Court of Appeal decision, on whether the attorney-clienty privilege applies when lawyers speak with their firm's "in-house counsel," misses the bigger picture. By Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld and Sarah Poppy Alexander
Gay C. Grunfeld
Managing Partner
Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP
Complex civil litigation, with an emphasis on business, civil rights, and employment litigation
101 Mission St.
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 433-6830
Email: ggrunfeld@rbgg.com
Columbia Univ SOL; New York NY
The decision in Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP v. Superior Court, 231 Cal. App. 4th 1214 (2014), shields intra-firm conversations about a current client's potential malpractice claims from future discovery if that client files a subsequent lawsuit against its attorneys. In reaching this result, the 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the teaching of three federal district courts, all of which had refused to recognize law firm general counsel communications about a dissatisfied clien...
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