Apex Municipal Fund v. N-Group Securities

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a one-year delay in taking any action to attempt to preserve the privilege” in documents retained and then disclosed by former employee waives the company’s privilege in the documents
• refusing to recognize attorneyclient privilege over documents that the party asserting the privilege had effectively abandoned to a former employee
• “Simply put, a one-year delay in taking any action to attempt to preserve the privilege exemplifies carelessness.”
• “the situation is like that where a client gives general information to his lawyer so that the lawyer may prepare a complaint in any ordinary civil action. The fact that some of the information is thus disclosed” in the civil action “does not waive the privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).