Wagi v. Silver Ridge Park West

CLYNE, PJ.Cv.

The above cases, although unrelated, have common discovery issues. Each presents its own procedural context and all arrive at this juncture at varying states of factual development. The cases involve the court in a decade-old conflict over the meaning of the term “work product,” its interrelationship with the “lawyer-client privilege,” and the showing required to overcome R. 4:10-2(c), once a party invokes its protections. Resolution of this conflict requires the court to address the following issues:

I. whether the names and addresses of those who have given witness statements…