Is attorney-client privilege a bar to disclosure?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In Re: Rock & Republic Enterprises Inc., Case No. 10-11728 (AJG) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2010):
"[T]he party claiming the attorney-client privilege as a bar to disclosure has the burden of showing that the communication sought to be suppressed falls within the parameters of the privilege." Doe 2 v. Superior Court, 132 Cal. App. 4th 1504, 1522 (2005)
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