{"id":11505,"date":"2025-05-19T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:23:31","slug":"new-claims-of-attorney-client-privilege-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11505","title":{"rendered":"New Claims of Attorney-Client Privilege Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9218\">the holding of the Superior Court<\/a> confirming that the fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege did not allow a trustee to withhold documents in discovery, the Orphans&#8217; Court held that new claims of attorney-client privilege based on exceptions to the fiduciary exception were barred by the doctrines of waiver and law of the case. <em>Scaife Trust<\/em>, 3 Fid.Rep.4th 14 (Allegheny O.C. 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the holding of the Superior Court confirming that the fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege did not allow a trustee to withhold documents in discovery, the Orphans&#8217; Court held that new claims of attorney-client privilege based on exceptions to the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[153,152,415,408,289],"class_list":["post-11505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-attorneyclient-privilege","tag-discovery","tag-fiduciary-exception","tag-law-of-the-case","tag-waiver","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11514,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions\/11514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}