Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Simms

How courts have described this case

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• holding that American law applies to documents located in Italy pertaining to United States trademark law and lawsuit in United States federal court
• holding that emails regarding a PowerPoint presentation prepared by in-house counsel properly are withheld as work product
• recognizing that the work product doctrine has been “extended… to work product produced by a client at the direction of counsel in anticipation of litigation”
• concluding that merely sending cease-and-desist letters, even if party considered possibility of litigation had letter recipient “responded negatively to the warning letter,” was not sufficient to trigger work-product doctrine
• observing that work product encompasses “an attorney's ‘interviews, statements, memoranda, correspondence, briefs, [and] mental impressions’” and “factual material, including the result of a factual investigation[.]”
• explaining that the “core purpose” of the doctrine “is to ‘prevent exploitation of a party’s efforts in preparing for trial’ by precluding the adversary from obtaining such material absent substantial need”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).