Sterling Finance Management, L.P. v. UBS Painewebber, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the “potential difference in the scope of the corporate attorney-client privilege” arguably creates a conflict
• assuming that a conflict exists when the law of the applicable jurisdiction is unresolved or unclear
• assuming that a conflict exists when the law of the applicable jurisdiction is unresolved or unclear
• where there is no conflict, Illinois choice of law principles dictate that the law of the forum state governs
• a contempt proceeding is a proper method for testing the correctness of a pretrial discovery order
• “A contempt proceeding is an appropriate method for a party to test the correctness of an otherwise unreviewable pretrial discovery order.” (citing Lewis v. Family Planning Management, Inc., 306 Ill. App. 3d 918 (1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).