In a blow to in-house lawyers, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled that communications between corporate counsel and former employees are not privileged and are freely discoverable.
The 5-4 decision states that attorney-client privilege doesn’t exist because the former employee no longer has an ongoing principal-agent relationship with the corporation. The case involves a parents’ suit against a school district, claiming that their football-playing son allegedly was sent back into a game after suffering a concussion.
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