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Check Your Privilege: Is the Scope of the Attorney-Client Privilege Narrowing? | Felicello Law PC

The “attorney-client privilege” may be the most well-known and misunderstood legal principles. Both attorneys and clients often make broad assumptions about its scope and application..

Washington Supreme Court Extends Corporate Privilege to Non-Employee Contractors | Perkins Coie

Previous Scope of Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege More than thirty years ago, the Washington Supreme Court ruled defense counsel may not engage in ex parte communications with a plaintiff’s treating physician. Loudon v. Mhyre, 110 Wn.2d 675, 676 (1988). The Loudon rule, as it’s known, was revisited and tempered slightly in Youngs v. PeaceHealth, when the court held defendant hospitals may have ex parte communications with employee-physicians who treated a plaintiff, as long as the communications “are limited to the facts of the alleged negligent event.” 179 Wn.2d 645, 671 (2014). Recently, the court was asked to consider expanding its holding in Youngs to allow ex parte communications between defendant hospitals and their

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