Latino v. Kaizer

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendants’ denial of the plaintiff’s bad faith claim did not “amount to an affirmative act which supports an at issue waiver”
• finding attorney-client privilege can extend to communications to a client-retained accountant when the accountant’s services are necessary or highly useful to an effective consultation between client and lawyer
• communications among accountant, client, and attorney are protected if they are “reasonably related” to purpose of client obtaining confidential legal advice from attorney
• acknowledged that “when the documents at issue are related to allegedly improper actions of ERISA fiduciaries, discovery often is permitted despite a claim of work product privilege,” but refused to reach the issue of whether fiduciary exception applied
• acknowledged that “when the documents at issue are related to allegedly improper actions 11 of ERISA fiduciaries, discovery often is permitted despite a claim of work product privilege,” but 12 refused to reach the issue of whether fiduciary exception applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).