Leibel v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that attorney-client privilege attaches only to confidential communications between a client and an attorney, and separately noting the circumstances under which a waiver of the privilege may occur after it has attached
• analyzing whether a waiver occurred where otherwise- privileged information became public due to litigation in another court
• the waiver of the related attorney-client privilege must be “an intentional and voluntary act that cannot arise by implication . . . .”
• “whether the [work-product] privilege has been destroyed by this disclosure depends on whether the privilege has been waived”
• separately analyzing application of the attorney-client privilege and waiver of the privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).