Having determined that attorney-client privilege doesn’t prevent disclosure of client identities or descriptions of legal services provided, the Commonwealth Court has now found such information can’t be protected under the attorney work-product doctrine, grand-jury secrecy rules or a criminal investigation exception.
The case stems from a Right-to-Know Law request by Associated Press reporter Marc Levy for legal bills related to the Pennsylvania Senate’s hiring of attorneys to represent former state Sen. Robert J. Mellow and Democratic caucus employees. The Senate had argued in Levy v. Senate of Pennsylvania that the names of the clients and the descriptions of the services the attorneys provided them were protected by the attorney-client privilege.
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