Parks v. Colvin

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that non-attorney emails were not privileged when there was no ex- planation as to why the attorney-client privilege applied
• granting motion to compel when the privilege log failed to show how the attorney-client privilege applied to each non-attorney e-mail at issue.
• “Plaintiffs cannot rely on a privilege that belongs to their accountant to protect documents that they themselves possess.”
• “Plaintiffs cannot rely on a privilege that belongs to their accountant to protect documents that they themselves possess.”
• plaintiff property owners could not assert the privilege on behalf of their accountant, who did not invoke it on his own behalf, and they could not rely on his privilege to protect documents that they themselves possessed
• “It is well-recognized that information regarding a client's fees generally is not a ‘confidential communication’ between an attorney and client, and thus is not protected by the attorney client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).