Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.

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• applying the fiduciary exception based upon both the defendant’s status as a fiduciary and the plaintiff’s status as an ERISA plan beneficiary
• “To the extent defendants failed to expressly assert the claim of attorney work product protection for these documents until two years after defendants initially withheld this information, defendants have waived this claim.”
• “[B]ecause in-house counsel has an increased level of participation in the day-to-day operations of the corporation, it is more difficult to define the scope of the privilege when a communication is made to in-house counsel.”

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Other cases named Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.

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• Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.
  W.D. Texas· 2006-10-03· cited 8×
• Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.
  W.D. Texas· 2007-11-26· cited 2×