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BigLaw: The Privilege Is Not Yours to Give

By Liz Kurtz

Originally published on April 20, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. Most large firm associates consider "privilege review" no privilege. What's that you say? A trained monkey could do this work? An understandable thought given the drudgery, but the pitfalls of reviewing a massive document production for privilege are real and occur too often for comfort. It's not monkey business. A Litigation Team Out of Its League ? "Chloe," now a veteran litigator at a firm on the West Coast, knows all too well how a perfect storm of common variables can, in the aggregate, amount to a discovery disaster. As a mid-level associate, Chloe was assigned to work on a document production in a products liability case. Her firm was delighted to land the client, a medical device manufacturer, and embarked upon the case with starry-eyed visions of a lengthy, but manageable, document review...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).