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Litigation

Mar. 19, 2010

Work Product Ruling Reduces Gamesmanship

Practitioner Dana Cephas says both plaintiffs and defendants should applaud, not criticize, the recent decision on attorney work product.

By Dana Cephas

Several commentators have unfairly criticized the March 4, 2010 ruling by the Court of Appeal in Coito v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County, 2010 Cal. App. LEXIS 292, and have suggested that unless the California Supreme Court reverses that decision, the sky will fall with respect to the protection of an attorney's work product. To the contrary, the Coito decision is consistent with the purposes of the discovery statutes...

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