Freeley v. McGrath

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the attorney-client privilege is to be construed no more broadly than necessary to effectuate its purpose
• stating that an exchange of information must be made in confidence, and for the limited purpose of assisting the common defense, for the joint defense doctrine to apply.
• stating that the joint defense privilege preserves the attorney-client privilege despite “disclosure of privileged information by an attorney to actual or potential eo-defen-dants, or to their counsel____”
• finding that the potential duplication of effort and cost did not demonstrate undue hardship because “duplication of effort and cost is implicit in every application of the work-product rule”
• applying federal law in securities fraud suit and recognizing shareholder’s statutory or common law right to inspection could not overcome otherwise valid assertion of attorney-client privilege
• applying federal law in securities fraud suit and recognizing shareholder‘s statutory or common law right to inspection could not overcome otherwise valid assertion of attorney-client privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).