United States First Circuit

Where corporation and its subsidiary waive attorney-client privilege, former attorneys and officers may not invoke that privilege even if there was a joint defense agreement if the claims against the objectors were only in their official capacities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/08/2001
• Published 11/08/2001

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and DOUMAR, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew Good, with whom Harvey A. Silverglate, Silverglate & Good, Norman Zalkind, David Duncan, Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan, Martin G. Weinberg, Oteri, Weinberg & Lawson, Elizabeth B. Burnett, and Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo were on consolidated brief, for appellants., John M. Hodgens, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, with whom James B. Farmer, United States Attorney, and Stephen P. Heymann, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for the United States.