Upjohn Co. v. United States
449 U.S. 383 (1981) Cited 4,229 times 130 Legal AnalysesHolding that communications between corporate counsel and a corporation's employees made for the purpose of rendering legal advice are protected by the attorney-client privilege
Mohawk Indus., Inc. v. Carpenter
558 U.S. 100 (2009) Cited 770 times 17 Legal AnalysesHolding that, although a privilege interest is certainly important, it can effectively be reviewed on direct appeal without resorting to the collateral-order doctrine to bypass the final-judgment rule
In re Seagate Technology
497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007) Cited 798 times 86 Legal AnalysesHolding that an "advice of counsel" defense to willful infringement does not waive the attorney-client privilege as to trial counsel partly because post-filing conduct is usually not relevant to a finding of willful infringement
In re Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc.
203 F.3d 800 (Fed. Cir. 2000) Cited 219 times 5 Legal AnalysesHolding that Spalding could assert an attorney-client privilege for an invention disclosure to its corporate legal department for the purpose of obtaining legal advice for the corporation
In re Echostar Commc'ns Corp.
448 F.3d 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006) Cited 182 times 6 Legal AnalysesHolding that the assertion of the advice-of counsel defense against a charge of willful patent infringement necessarily involves issues of substantive patent law
Hernandez v. Tanninen
604 F.3d 1095 (9th Cir. 2010) Cited 151 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding attorney-client privilege waived where plaintiff disclosed communications in opposing summary judgment motion
Feller v. Brock
802 F.2d 722 (4th Cir. 1986) Cited 211 timesFinding that denial of intervention as of right to apple pickers was reversible error and admitting intervenors as parties-defendant
In re Regents of University of California
101 F.3d 1386 (Fed. Cir. 1996) Cited 135 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding attorney-client privilege applied to pre-litigation communication between client and patent attorney
In re Copley
518 F.3d 1022 (9th Cir. 2008) Cited 97 timesHolding that a qualified First Amendment right of public access attaches to, among other documents, a plea colloquy transcript
In re Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
238 F.3d 1370 (Fed. Cir. 2001) Cited 115 times 1 Legal AnalysesFinding that reliance on advice of counsel “waived the attorney-client privilege with respect to all documents which formed the basis for the advice, all documents considered by counsel in rendering that advice, and all reasonably contemporaneous documents reflecting discussions by counsel or others concerning that advice”
Rule 72 - Magistrate Judges: Pretrial Order
Fed. R. Civ. P. 72 Cited 168,221 times 20 Legal AnalysesGranting a party fourteen days to object to a Magistrate Judge's non-dispositive order