While judges often make rulings on the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine that are wide of the mark,1 every so often they get one spot-on.2 Happily, New York’s Appellate Division, First Department (per Judge Karla Moskowitz), recently did just that.

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In Ambac Assurance Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans,3 Moskowitz reversed an order of New York County’s Supreme Court which held that documents relating to a merger between entities of the Bank of America and Countrywide Financial Corp. were not protected from disclosure by the “common interest” privilege.

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