Profit Management Development, Inc. v. Jacobson, Brandvik & Anderson, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiffs waived privilege by giving deposition testimony regarding the privileged matter and failing to object to the material in court
• “The plaintiffs further waived the privilege when they did not object to the material in federal court on the basis of its confidential nature.”
• “[a]ny disclosure by the client is inherently inconsistent with the policy behind the privilege of facilitating a confidential attorney-client relationship and, therefore, must result in a waiver of the privilege”
• party waived attorney-client privilege by giving deposition testimony that referred to his attorney’s advice about legal effect of state-court judgment
• once the privilege is waived the communication can no longer be considered confidential
• “[a]ny disclosure by the client is inherently inconsistent with the policy behind the privilege of facilitating a confidential attorney-client relationship and, therefore, must result in a waiver of the privilege”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).