Visual Scene v. PILKINGTON BROS., Plc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that where groups of attorneys and clients work together and pool or share litigation information, “for the limited purpose of the ‘pooled information’ situation, the attorney for one becomes the attorney for the other”
• noting that the attorney work product privilege is “designed to promote the adversary system by protecting an attorney’s trial preparations, not necessarily from the rest of the world, but' from an opposing party in litigation”
• reversing trial court order requiring production of documents reflecting communications between two parties to a subsequent action; sunglasses distributor (VSI) sued supplier (Pilkington, and Chance) and processor (Metro
• work product privilege waived where disclosure of information is made in manner that is “inconsistent with the maintenance of secrecy from the disclosing party’s adversary”
• “Quite obviously, when a member of the common interest group discloses this information to a non-member, a waiver of the privilege, as in the ordinary case, occurs.”
• privilege is waived when holder voluntarily discloses information to third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).