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Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc. Case Brief
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Case Brief Summary & Legal Analysis
tl;dr: A defendant’s inadequate e-discovery privilege review, which relied on an undocumented keyword search and abandoned a “clawback” agreement, resulted in the court finding a waiver of attorney-client privilege for 165 inadvertently produced documents.
Legal Significance: Establishes that a party’s privilege review in e-discovery must be technologically reasonable and defensible. Relying on an unsubstantiated keyword search without quality control constitutes a failure to take reasonable precautions, resulting in waiver of privilege for inadvertently disclosed documents.
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Case Facts & Court Holding
Key Facts & Case Background
During discovery, Defendants Creative Pipe, Inc. et al. were ordered to produce electronically stored information (ESI). Defendants initially sought a court-approved non-waiver (“clawback”) agreement, citing the burden of privilege review, but abandoned this request after receiving a discovery extension, committing instead to a document-by-document review. Their review process was twofold. For text-searchable ESI, their expert ran a keyword search using approximately 70 terms selected by the client and attorneys; documents not flagged by the search were produced without further review or quality control sampling. For non-text-searchable ESI, an attorney and the client conducted a manual review of only the document “page titles” due to time constraints. This process resulted in the inadvertent production of 165 allegedly privileged documents to Plaintiff Victor Stanley, Inc. (VSI). VSI’s counsel discovered the documents, segregated them, and notified Defendants. When Defendants claimed the production was inadvertent, VSI moved to have the court declare the privilege waived. Defendants failed to provide the court with any details to demonstrate the reasonableness of their search methodology.
Court Holding & Legal Precedent
Issue: Did the defendants waive attorney-client privilege and work-product protection for 165 electronically stored documents by failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent their disclosure during a large-scale e-discovery production?
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Legal Issue
Did the defendants waive attorney-client privilege and work-product protection for 165 electronically stored documents by failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent their disclosure during a large-scale e-discovery production?
Conclusion
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Legal Rule
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Legal Analysis
The court applied the intermediate balancing test to determine if the inadvertent Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et
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- Defendants waived privilege for 165 documents by failing to take reasonable
