Overlawyered » privilege http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 14:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Chevron can depose opposing lawyer in Ecuador case http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:10:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19817 As evidence mounts of attorney misconduct in a high-profile environmental case, a judge grants the oil company an extraordinary request to put plaintiff’s counsel Steven Donziger under oath. [Roger Alford, Opinio Juris; earlier] Tweet Tags: Chevron, environment, privilege

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]]> As evidence mounts of attorney misconduct in a high-profile environmental case, a judge grants the oil company an extraordinary request to put plaintiff’s counsel Steven Donziger under oath. [Roger Alford, Opinio Juris; earlier]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case/feed/ 1 We’re all lawyers. We don’t have to answer questions. http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/were-all-lawyers-we-dont-have-to-answer-questions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=were-all-lawyers-we-dont-have-to-answer-questions http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/were-all-lawyers-we-dont-have-to-answer-questions/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:00:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7703 Not like you manufacturing defendants who are going to have to hand over your hard disks’ contents to us because you’re mere non-lawyers. “If a company’s sole business is licensing and litigating patents, plus it’s run by lawyers, what isn’t protected by privilege?” A subsidiary of patent holding firm Acacia is appealing a judge’s ruling [...]

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]]> Not like you manufacturing defendants who are going to have to hand over your hard disks’ contents to us because you’re mere non-lawyers. “If a company’s sole business is licensing and litigating patents, plus it’s run by lawyers, what isn’t protected by privilege?” A subsidiary of patent holding firm Acacia is appealing a judge’s ruling denying some of its broad privilege claims. (Zusha Elinson, “IP Case Tests Boundaries of Privilege”, The Recorder, Oct. 20).

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