All posts tagged "attorney-client privilege"
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2.3KBigLawDropping Bombs: Gibson Dunn Removes Class Action Fallout Between Firms to Federal Judge Ewing Werlein
Representing the Maryland law firm, Gibson Dunn seek to transfer the case to DC, where the claims are being litigated. Randy Sorrels...
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1.8KEditors ChoiceTexas Justice System: Disqualification Quandary Exposes Declared Court Bias
Disqualified or Not? Judges Allegiances Trump Recusal Laws, Critics Say. A series of recent orders signed by Judge Susan Brown challenged.
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2.4KEditors ChoiceTexas Attorney Spat: Lloyd Kelley Takes On Randall Sorrels in Federal Court, Judge Hittner Recuses
It's pro se lawyer Lloyd Kelley versus pro se lawyer Randy Sorrels in Houston. And one of them is the former President...
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582BankersPHH Mortgage Loan File is Recoverable With Counsel, Just Not in Texas or Florida When You’re Notably Pro Se
The deep pockets have made an appearance in Rhode Island as PHH Mortgage Corporation retain Locke Lord and 2 other law firms...
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1.2KAppellate JudgesFederal Court Pilot Scheme for Discovery in Foreclosure Cases Confirms It’s A Division of Wall St.
The discovery protocols are biased in favor of the bank or non-bank and the gag order is in violation of the first...
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879Appellate JudgesPiercing Attorney-Client Privilege During Conversations
A communication divulged to “strangers” or outsiders can scarcely be considered a confidential communication between attorney and client.
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2.0KLaws In New YorkElder Abuse and the $55,000 Bribe by Supreme Courthouse Director and Lawyer Husband Prosecuted by Manhattan D.A.
Melissa Ringel violated her oath as an official of the court when she brazenly circumvented the rules to assist her lawyer husband,...
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1.5KLITFaraday’s Electrifying Legal Dispute with Former In-House Counsel
Federal magistrate judge, Jean Rosenbluth, has ruled that Faraday Future waived attorney-client privilege regarding employment agreement.
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818Federal JudgesFreedom on Information Easier to Get from D.C. Judge than Unsealed Documents in Texas Federal Court
The courts are closed in Texas if you are a citizen who is looking for unsealed documents not uploaded to PACER in...
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3.3KEditors ChoiceGoodwin Lawyer Fails Defending David Correia as He Heads to Jail For A Year and So Should the Partners at Goodwin Procter LLP
Correia’s lawyer, William Harrington of Goodwin Procter LLP had argued that his client should be spared prison time because he took less...
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2.8KAppellate CircuitA Taxing Texas Decision to Deny En Banc Rehearing Splits Fifth Circuit Right Down the Middle. But The Right Call Was Made.
The 8 Dissenting 5th Cir. Judges Owen, Smith, Elrod, Haynes, Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, Oldham would give Attorney Client Privilege to the Austin,...
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2.2KDeutsche BankFifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan is Transparent as the Burkes’ Watch His Moves.
Judge Dennis dissents quoting that the case majority (Judges Duncan and Elrod) relies upon was decided under Mississippi state law, rather than,...
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3.2KEditors ChoiceThe Unprecedented Greed Series: What do Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine, and Goodwin have In Common? Criminality.
NY Judge: Correia’s reliance on an out-of-circuit case, United States v. Hankins (5th Cir.), for the proposition that a client’s communication of...
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2.2KFederal JudgesCIGNA’s Attorney Privilege Claims too Fishy for this Senior Texas Federal Judge
In summary, the court concludes that AP may successfully assert the fiduciary exception against Cigna; or, stated differently, Cigna "cannot assert the...
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2.4KFederal JudgesFracking Company Says Fraud In Patent Suit Negates Attorney Privilege and Seeks Disqualification of Lawyers – The Result
ATTORNEY as a WITNESS: Plaintiffs seek the same remedy as in the Landmark Graphics opinion, where the district court confirmed that a...
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2.6K1Federal Judges
Fracking Company Says Fraud In Patent Suit Negates Attorney Privilege and Seeks Disqualification of Lawyers – N.D. Tex.
ATTORNEY as a WITNESS: Plaintiffs seek the same remedy as in the Landmark Graphics opinion, where the district court confirmed that a...
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2.4KLaws In TexasSpousal Privilege is Tossed in State Supreme Court Opinion. Married Lawyers Are Now Drafting Communication Agreements
The court’s opinion doesn’t seem to reflect or take note that the trial court’s order had allotted for redacting any attorney-client privileged...
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1.4KAccelerationConsumer Finance Protection Bureau Targeted Debt Collecting Lawyers Under ex-CFPB Director Richard Cordray
In the words of CFPB Director Richard Cordray, These wolves in sheep’s clothing [lawyers] take money from consumers who are already struggling...
