Delta Financial Corp. v. Morrison

*670During discovery, Christopher A. Byrne, who was an attorney for the defendants in action No. 1 and for the plaintiffs in action No. 2, asserted that 55 e-mails were protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, a litigation committee privilege, and/or a common interest privilege. After an exhaustive in camera review of those 55 e-mails, the Supreme Court determined that Byrne failed to satisfy his burden of establishing that the documents contained confidential communications between an attorney and a client during the course of professional employment for the purpose of…