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May 26, 2022
Law firm disqualified for not destroying privileged documents received by mistake
The Lewitt Hackman lawyers wrote that Miracle Mile Law Group had been “caught withholding text messages and illegal audio recordings that were required to be produced in discovery,” calling the motion for disqualification “a frivolous attempt to deprive cross-complainants of their counsel of choice.”
Lawyers from the Lewitt Hackman law firm were disqualified from defending an employer in a whistleblower case because they did not destroy court documents with plaintiffs’ privileged information that was inadvertently sent to them.
“Attorney impressions are work product and it should be privileged,” Los Angeles County Judge Michael L. Stern wrote in his ruling on May 18. “That opposing counsel were asked three times to destroy the document...
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