Smith v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining to limit a privilege waiver to documents created before plaintiffs counsel intentionally sent a letter originally prepared for the client to opposing counsel
• “It would be unfair to allow a client to assert the attorney-client privilege and prevent disclosure of damaging communications while allowing the client to disclose other selected communications solely for self-serving purposes.”
• in case filed in 1981, ordering production of privileged documents written from 1973 to 1976
• privilege waived when attorney, acting on behalf of client, voluntarily sent information to opposing party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).