Barr Marine Products Co. v. Borg-Warner Corp.

OPINION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief Judge.

At issue are twenty-five documents, submitted for in camera inspection, that plaintiff says are discoverable and defendant asserts are protected by the attorney-client privilege. A brief summary of the state of the law with regard to the privilege will be helpful in assessing the privilege claim as to each document.

THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE:

The purpose of the attorney-client privilege is to encourage complete disclosure of information between client and attorney. As the Third Circuit has observed in its most recent opinion on the privilege, In re…