Dabney v. Investment Corp. of America

*465MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

VanARTSDALEN, District Judge.

This motion to compel raises the question of whether the attorney-client privilege attaches to confidential communications made to a law student or law school graduate who has not yet been admitted to the bar. I conclude under the facts of this case that it does not.

In early 1974, while he was still a third-year law student, Gerald Katzoff started working as a part time, and later full time, administrative assistant for defendant Investment Corporation of America (ICA). He graduated from law school in May of that year and was apparently…