Amidst the flood of coronavirus news, a major ongoing fight over attorney client privilege and the work product doctrine has received scant attention.

But what’s at stake is huge: A federal judge ordered a company to hand over memos by lawyers from Jones Day to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, which is suing the company, RPM International Inc., for disclosure and accounting fraud.

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