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Jump to full article: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, 1999-11-18
Author: MILO GEYELIN / Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Intro: Liggett Group sued its former defense lawyers to force the release of 2,600 boxes of company and industry tobacco documents stretching back more than four decades.
The suit was filed in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., against the Los Angeles firm Latham & Watkins. The suit contends that Liggett needs the records to comply with pretrial fact-finding requests in a suit brought against it and other tobacco companies by a coalition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans. That case is now pending before U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn.
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Our position is that this can not be done by your firm because of the privacy interest of prior counsel in its work product and because of your client's present posture of adversity [with other tobacco firms].
Law firm Latham &
Watkins, in a letter to Liggett attorney Aaron H. Marks, who asked to cull through all the records to determine which might fall under the nondisclosure privilege.
Quoted in GEYELIN M.
<i>Liggett Sues Its Former Lawyers To Force Release of Documents</i>
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