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• holding that a party waives privilege only “by asserting claims or defenses that put his or her attorney’s advice in issue in the litigation”
• finding that a party can waive the attorney-client privilege by asserting defenses that put the attorney’s advice in issue in the litigation
• “A defendant may . . . waive [attorney-client] privilege by asserting reliance on the advice of counsel as an affirmative defense.”
• \A defendant may . . . waive the privilege by asserting reliance on the advice of counsel as an affirmative defense.\
• “[A] party can waive the attorney client privilege by asserting claims that put his or her attorneys’ advice in issue in the litigation.”
• “The advice of counsel is placed in issue where the client asserts a claim or defense, and attempts to prove that claim or defense by disclosing or describing an attorney client communication.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).