Linde Thomson Langworthy Kohn & Van Dyke, P.C. v. Resolution Trust Corporation

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• finding burden was not undue where the request was limited “to a reasonable time-frame” and there was no “undue disruption or serious hindrance of the normal operations of [defendant’s] business”
• “An investigation conducted by the [FTC] may conceivably neither culminate in litigation, nor be initially designed to inspire it.”
• “The attorney-client privilege undeniably extends to communications with one employed to assist the lawyer in the rendition of professional legal services.”
• wide range of investigation is appropriate where “multifaceted activities are involved, and the precise character of possible violations cannot be known in advance”
• “We stressed that the critical factor for purposes of the attorney-client privilege was that the communication be made ‘in confidence for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from the lawyer.’” (some emphasis omitted
• \Federal courts have never recognized an insured-insurer privilege as such.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).