National Union Fire Insurance Co. v. Valdez

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

This original mandamus action arises from a bad faith insurance case. Relator seeks relief from the trial court’s order compelling production of its attorney’s files from the related, previously resolved workers’ compensation case. Although we conclude that a document is not automatically privileged because it reposes in an attorney’s file, we hold that a request for an “attorney’s files,” as opposed to a request for specific documents relevant to the pending lawsuit, is objectionable under the attorney work-product exemption from discovery. Because relator…