Dec. 4, 2025
O.C. judge rebukes firm over privileged emails, weighs disqualification
Judge Scott A. Steiner said privileged emails passed to Global Legal Law Firm should never have been reviewed and faulted the firm for not alerting opposing counsel, leaving disqualification on the table.
An Orange County Superior Court judge said he would likely order Global Legal Law Firm to track down and destroy a cache of attorney-client privileged documents it got from a former insider in a business dispute, blasting the firm for breaching its ethical duties by staying silent after opposing counsel asserted privilege.
In a tentative ruling, Judge Scott A. Steiner said he believed the documents were improperly disclosed and should never have been reviewed. He stopped short of ...
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