Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Successor in Interest to New England Merchants Leasing Corporation, Etc. v. Ogden Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding joint attorney-client relationship terminates when “all the joint clients ” are aware of the explicit or implicit termination
• “We look to Massachusetts law to determine the scope of both the asserted privilege and the exception in this case.”
• “[W]hen a lawyer represents multiple clients having a common interest, communications between the lawyer and any one (or more) of the clients are privileged as to outsiders but not inter sese.”
• “A joint attorney-client relationship remains intact until it is expressly terminated or until circumstances arise that readily imply to all the joint clients that the relationship is over.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).