United States v. BDO Seidman, LLP

How courts have described this case

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

• \stating that the common interest doctrine only will apply where the parties undertake a joint effort with respect to a common legal interest\
• “Only those communications which ‘reflect the lawyer's thinking [or] are made for the purpose of eliciting the lawyer's professional advice or other legal assistance’ fall within the privilege.”
• whether to extend to potential litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).