Upjohn Co. v. United States

Holding 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

United States v. Graf

Holding that "when a Rule 29 motion is made on a specific ground, other grounds not raised are waived"

In re Bieter Co.

Holding that "disclosure of otherwise privileged documents" to the client's agent, an independent contractor, "did not destroy the privilege"

In re Copper Market Antitrust Litigation

Holding consultant's "independent contractor status provides no basis for excluding [the consultant's] communications with [the corporations's] counsel from the protection of the attorney-client privilege."

Export-Import Bank of United States v. Asia Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.

Holding that a financial consultant was not the functional equivalent of an employee because although he was intimately involved in the client company’s restructuring talks and participated in communications with the company’s attorneys, his "efforts [were] precisely those that any financial consultant would likely make under the circumstances"

F.T.C. v. Glaxosmithkline

Holding that, for an institutional client, there is no waiver of privilege where the documents are shared within the organization with those who "needed to provide input to the legal department and/or receive the legal advice and strategies formulated by counsel"

Trustees of Electrical Workers Local No. 26 Pension Trust Fund v. Trust Fund Advisors, Inc.

Holding that Rule 502 "abolishe[d] the dreaded subject-matter waiver, i.e., that any disclosure of privileged matter worked a forfeiture of any other privileged information that pertained to the same subject matter"

United States ex rel. Strom v. Scios, Inc.