Supreme Court of California

In circumstances in which an attorney receives privileged documents through inadvertence, that attorney may not read a document any more closely than is necessary to ascertain that it is privileged. Once it becomes apparent that the content is privileged, counsel must immediately notify opposing counsel and try to resolve the situation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2007
• Published 12/13/2007

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pine & Pine, Norman Pine, Beverly Pine, Sherman Oaks;  Law Offices of Raymond Paul Johnson, Raymond Paul Johnson, El Segundo, Robert A. Balbuena, Michelle M. West, Visalia;  Law Offices of Jack L Mattingly and Jack L. Mattingly, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Yukevich & Sonnett, James J. Yukevich, Alexander G. Calfo, Stephanie A. Hingle, Los Angeles;  Bingham McCutchen, Leslie G. Landau,Claudia Y. Sanchez;  Snell & Wilmer, Michael D. Zimmerman, Richard A. Derevan, Costa Mesa, and Michael S. McIntosh for Defendants and Respondents., Hugh F. Young, Jr., and Harvey M. Grossman for The Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.