Nobody likes privilege logs. With the staggering increases in the size of privilege logs because of electronically stored information, privilege review and privilege logs are now the most expensive part of discovery. And the value of the privilege log is de minimus.
While the rules require the parties to notify the opposing party of any information that is being withheld on the basis privilege, in reality, it is more a game of “Gotcha” than testing the veracity of what one side is withholding from another as privileged.
