Judge Rules No Privilege in Enron Fraud Case

The New York Law Journal reports that in the Dorsey representation of Travelers Casualty, partner Christopher Karagheuzoff and attorneys Joseph Shumofsky and Deirdre Sheridan recently persuaded federal bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzales to deny attorney client privilege to plaintiff Enron Broadband for communications between Enron executives and in-house counsel regarding a bond dispute, and to permit discovery of communications between former employees of Enron Broadband and in-house counsel.

Judge Gonzales said that, because Travelers had established enough evidence to provide a prima facie case of fraud by Enron Broadband, the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege rule must apply to the communications at issue.

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The article "Judge Rules No Privilege in Enron Fraud Case" was published in the August 30, 2006, edition of the New York Law Journal.