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REPORT BY CONSULTANT IN THIS BILLING DISPUTE NOT PROTECTED BY ATTORNEY-CLIENT, ATTORNEY WORK-PRODUCT OR MATERIAL-PREPARED-FOR-LITIGATION PRIVILEGES, CRITERIA EXPLAINED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department affirmed most of Supreme Court’s rulings on the disclosure of documents in a billing dispute, including a report from a consultant, finding that the documents were not protected by privileges for attorney-client communications, attorney work-product, or material prepared for litigation. The criteria for all were described:

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… [T]he report “does not include any legal advice, legal analysis or discussion of legal issues” nor does it disclose confidences of defendant, and ,,, it is not a communication “of a legal character” … . * * *Thus, the report was not protected by the attorney-client privilege.

…[T]he report was not protected from disclosure as attorney work product, as this “privilege should be narrowly applied to materials prepared by an attorney, acting as an attorney, which contain his [or her] analysis and trial strategy” … .

Materials such as reports prepared by a third party, a nonlawyer consultant, during an investigation do not ordinarily qualify under this exception … . * * *

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With regard to the claim that the report was protected from disclosure as material prepared for litigation, defendant’s “burden was to demonstrate that [the report] was obtained solely for litigation purposes” … , which “cannot be satisfied with wholly conclusory allegations”… . “[M]ixed or multipurpose reports are not free from disclosure” … . NYAHSA Servs., Inc., Self-Insurance Trust v People Care Inc., 2017 NY Slip Op 07909, Third Dept 11-9-17

 

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