In re Wing

How courts have described this case

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• reiterating that “attorney-client privilege is a shield used to protect [privileged] communications, not a sword wielded to gain advantage in litigation”
• applying 20 Pennsylvania privilege law, finding waiver where defendant took no action for 11 weeks after 21 becoming aware that privileged documents had been disclosed
• where party attempts to utilize privilege as weapon, via selectively disclosing communications, party waives privilege
• “Gemplus waived its attorney-client privilege with regard to the scope of the otherwise-privileged documents it disclosed to Plaintiff”
• “Where one party attempts to utilize the privilege as an offensive weapon, selectively disclosing communications in order to help its case, that party should be deemed to have waived the protection otherwise afforded it by the privilege it misused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).