A communique between a college coach and the school’s general counsel did not lose its lawyer-client privilege even though the coach shared it with the NCAA, a New Jersey appeals court says.

The coach had no authority to waive the privilege because the college itself was the client, the Superior Court Appellate Division held Thursday in Hedden v. Kean University, a precedential ruling.

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