Uber forfeited its attorney-client privilege regarding the subject matter of a conversation in March among Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski, and Uber’s in-house litigation counsel, a federal magistrate judge ruled Aug. 14 (Waymo LLC v. Uber Techs., Inc., N.D. Cal., No. 17-cv-00939-WHA (JSC), 8/14/17).
The conversation was privileged even though Uber took the unusual position that it wasn’t, and the company waived the privilege for undisclosed communications on the same subject matter when Kalanick gave deposition testimony about Levandowski’s statements in the meeting, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline S. Corley decided.
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