12/20/2007
Mishandling of Inadvertently Produced Work Product Results in Disqualification of Counsel and Experts
Zerlene Rico v Mitsubishi Motors Corp., ___ Cal. Rptr.3d ___, 2007 WL 4335934 (Cal. Sup. Ct. 2007)

Brief Summary

The California Supreme Court held that a lawyer in receipt of inadvertently produced work product in the form of a strategy memo should have stopped reading the document as soon as he realized it was probably privileged. His failure to do so and subsequent use of the memo in preparing his case and his experts justified disqualification of the lawyer and the experts.
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