Ashcraft & Gerel v. Shaw

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an order requiring a party to disclose documents in its possession is presently appealable under a final judgment analysis or in the alternative as a collateral order
• finding that the adverse-litigation exception applies regardless of whether the communication was made in the presence of all joint clients or only one joint client
• explaining that \the focus of the work product doctrine is non-disclosure to one’s adversary\
• “[A] parent is presumed to act in the best interests of his or her child.”
• “when two or more persons with a common interest engage an attorney to represent them with respect to that interest, the attorney privilege against disclosure of confidential communications does not apply between them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).