United States v. Roger D. Workman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[t]he attorney client privilege cannot be used as both a shield and a sword”
• explaining that a party cannot selectively assert that privilege to block introduction of information harmful to his case after introducing other aspects of his communications with counsel for his own benefit
• describing “implied” waiver by assertion of the defense of advice of counsel
• “The attorney client privilege may also be implicitly waived ... by raising attorney advice as a defense.” (internal citations omitted)
• “The attorney client privilege may also be implicitly waived . . . by raising attorney advice as a defense.” (internal citations omitted)
• parties cannot use privileged information “as both a shield and a sword”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).