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• recognizing that the crime-fraud exception \applies to work-product in the same way that it applies to the attorney-client privilege\
• recognizing that the crime-fraud exception “applies to work-product in the same way that it applies to the attorney-client privilege”
• noting that “courts generally have not found a waiver [of the attorney-client privilege] where the party attacking the privilege has not been prejudiced”
• explaining that “what we state as ‘facts’ … for purposes of reviewing the rulings on the summary judgment motion [] may not be the actual facts”
• explaining that testimony 19 USCA11 Case: 19-14353 Date Filed: 08/17/2021 Page: 20 of 33 protected by the attorney-client privilege may be compelled under certain exceptions concerning fraud perpetrated with the assistance of counsel
• reading Upjohn to insist that an attorney’s notes and memoranda of witness’s oral statements is considered to be highly protected opinion work product

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