Roughton v. Court of Common Pleas, Lucas County

How courts have described this case

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• “[E]ven if there is a general prospect of litigation, a document is not protected by work-product immunity if the document was prepared merely in the regular course of business.”
• as RJR is in the business of litigation, documents prepared in the ordinary course of that business of litigation without a tie to specific litigation are not protected by work product immunity
• under the joint defense exception, disclosure of privileged information to a third party does not constitute a waiver of the attorney-client privilege if the third party is counsel for an actual or potential co-defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).