United States Eighth Circuit

An accounting firm must produce quality control assessments prepared before underlying suit was filed, as the district court erred in finding the assessments were protected accounting services and therefore within the scope of the Illinois accountant-client privilege, but accounting firm and bottler were not required to disclose assessments prepared after the filing of the suit as those reports were work product.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2002
• Published 09/19/2002

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, BEAM and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas B. Quinn, argued, Chicago, IL (Roger Pascal, Chicago, IL, Thomas C. Walsh and Daniel R. O'Neill, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William F. Dolan, argued, Chicago, IL (Eric Trelz, James P. Martin, Mark H. Levison and Amy Marchant, St. Louis, MO, John W. Rotunno, Chicago, IL, and Timothy K. McNamara and Patrick L. Kenney, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellees.