Friday Invs., LLC v. Bally Total Fitness of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.

INMAN, Judge.

*641 This appeal requires us to consider the common interest doctrine, which extends the attorney-client privilege to communications between and among multiple parties sharing a common legal interest. We hold that an indemnification provision in an asset purchase agreement, standing alone, is insufficient to create a common legal interest between a civil litigant indemnitee and a third-party indemnitor.

*642 Bally Total Fitness of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. ("Mid-Atlantic") and Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation ("Holding") (collectively "Defendants") appeal the trial court's Order…