Sump v. Paronto-Mall Construction, 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 communication “concern[ing] media and business matters … must be disclosed”
• holding that communication “concern[ing] media and business matters … must be disclosed”
• proving “and protecting the privileged status of documents . . . requires, among other things, drafting them in such a way that a court will be able assess the applicability of a privilege claim even when a dispute arises . . . decades after the communication.”
• privilege may extend to non-attorney employee of client “if directly supervised by a licensed attorney or patent agent”
• “Communications among non-attorneys in a corporation may be privileged if made at the direction of counsel, to gather information to aid counsel in providing legal services.” (citations omitted)
• “But it does not follow that because the agent is permitted to engage in this defined subuni- verse of legal practice, his activities are therefore equiva- lent to those of a practicing attorney.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).