Kosinsky v. City School District

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[an attorney-client] relationship arises only when one contacts an attorney in his capacity as such for the purpose of obtaining legal advice .or services”
• noting the burden and holding attorney-client privilege did not apply where existence of attorney-client relationship was not shown
• “even where the technical requirements of the [attorney-client] privilege are satisfied, it may, nonetheless, yield in a proper case, where strong public policy requires disclosure”
• \[I]ndependent facts beyond the attorney's statements must be shown in order to demonstrate the existence of an underlying attorney-client relationship upon which a claim of privilege could be based.\
• third party merely paid legal fees; court refused privilege to fact of fee arrangement
• privilege exists “to ensure that one seeking legal advice will be able to confide fully and freely in his attorney, secure in the knowledge that his confidences will not later be exposed to public view to his embarrassment or legal detriment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).