The St. Luke Hospitals, Inc. v. Kopowski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that communications between non-attorneys were privileged because it was gathered at the direction of counsel to provide legal advice
• applying privilege to statements by nurses involved in patient's care to risk manager
• “when a communication is protected by the attorney-client privilege it may not be overcome by a showing of need by an opposing party to obtain the information contained in the privileged communication”
• attorney-client privilege applies to written statements memorializing oral communications between nurse and hospital representative made for the purpose of rendering legal services
• attorney-client privilege applied to written statements memorializing oral communications between nurse and hospital representative made for the purpose of rendering legal services
• “[A]ttorney-client privileged communications . . . are not discoverable even when the information is essential to the underlying case and cannot be obtained from another source.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).