... County District Court Appellants, a newspaper and its editor, brought this action against the state to obtain the billing records of a law firm's wor....) Appellants then sued the state to obtain release of the billing records. BCBS intervened; it opposed the release of the billing records on two grounds, arguing first that they were not government data and, in th...examining samples of billing records in camera, found that the attorney-client privilege protected the billing records in their entirety and declined to address whether they were governme...

...records. He contends they are protected by the attorney/client privilege and apparently assumes, without citing any authority, that billing information in and of itself is not discoverable...and therefore discoverable. This court has recently allowed discovery of defense counsel's billing records because they were relevant to plaintiff's claim for prevailing party.... KLEIN, J. Petitioner husband seeks certiorari review of a trial court order allowing discovery of his attorney's fee retainer agr...

.... 2d 329 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) (holding that records of payments made by client to their attorney do not implicate the attorney-client or work-product privileges); Finol v. Finol, ...subject to discovery; noting that the records sought were relevant and further noting that if the records contained descriptions of services rendered which would reveal the...(11th Cir. 1982) (observing that "matters involving the receipt of fees from a client are not generally privileged.") Petition denied. ...

...erroneous. III. We determine, however, that the district court did not err in finding a waiver of the attorney client privilege. This Court rev...usually not protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege." Clarke v. American Commerce Nat'l Bank, 974 F.2d 127, 129 (9th Cir. 1992). As a result, the ...subpoenas require the production of all "correspondence, memoranda, notations and/ or billing records" that relate to the initial substitution of Katz. Given this broad scope, the subpoenas certainly appear to intrude on privileged ...

...activities, hours spent (in tenths of hours), and the rate charged by each attorney who worked on the Motion. Appropriate redactions from billing records for attorney client privilege and or work ...may be made for the public filing with non-redacted copies of such records filed under seal. Defendants' notice and memorandum must be filed within 21 days of the date of this Order. Plaintiff shall...

...charged by each attorney who worked on the Motion to Compel. Appropriate redactions from billing records for attorney client privilege or work product may be made for the public filing with non-re...copies of such records filed under seal. Defendant shall submit its memorandum within 14 days of this Order. Plaintiff has 7 days to file a response, if any is desired. No reply shall be permitted. ...

..., LLP to Westar from January 1, 1998 to June 30, 2003 (the "billing records"). Mr. Lake served a subpoena on Westar on June 26, 2008 for the production of the billing records, among other documents. Westar subseque...responsive to the subpoena, he does not mention how Westar's production of the other categories of documents is insufficient. The court therefore only addresses the billing records. Westar, as the pa...the burden to establish the billing records are protected by the attorney-client privilege. The...

...which petitioner asserted his billing and payment records were protected by the attorney-client privilege and not subject to discovery; noting that the records sought were relevant and further not.... See E. Air Lines v. Gellert, 431 So.2d 329 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) (holding that records of payments made by client to their attorney do not...that if the records contained descriptions of services rendered which would reveal the mental impressions and opinions of counsel, that information should be redacted as privileged...

...may have performed for Zap. In effort to resolve the disqualification motion, the court directed Turner's counsel to submit his firm's billing records relating to the earlier representation for in camera review. Turner has su... court on that motion. However, each bill purports to be for general representation of Zap and does not appear to invade any attorney-client privilege that Turner migh.... 40, 50 (1980)). In keeping with these principles, the attorney-client privilege does not normally extend to attorney billing records. United States v. (Under Seal...

...misconduct of reading some of defense counsel's billing records that had been inadvertently placed in the open court files, because: (1) billing records do not automatically fall under the attorney-...attorney engaged in prosecutorial misconduct when he read some of defense counsel's billing records that had been inadvertently placed in the open court files. Defendant maintains that such billing records...court's denial of his motion for a mistrial based on the district attorney's misconduct irreparably prejudiced him at trial. The attorney-client privilege operates to protect confidential communications...

...(11th Cir. 2000). There is support for recognizing the privilege in billing records. Ehrich v. Binghamton City School Dist., 210 F.R.D. 17, 21..., or with the confidentiality that could reasonably be expected. ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE IN THE U.S. § 6:17 (footnotes om.../08) (unpublished), a case that does not involve billing time sheets but recites the general attorney-client privilege standards, to support his argument that his CJA filings should remain sealed. Doc...

.... The assertion that descriptions of work in billing records are protected by the attorney-client privilege has generally been...rejected. See Chaudhry v. Gallerizzo, 174 F.3d 394, 402 (4th Cir. 1999) ("Typically, the attorney-client privilege does not extend to billing ...that the redactions were made to preserve the attorney-client privilege, although counsel states that Plaintiff is willing to provide unredacted statements of invoices to the Court for an in-camera...

...invoke the lawyer-client privilege against a former member of the corporation's board of directors; (2) whether an attorney's billing records are protected...conclude that Sharp can effectively assert the lawyer-client privilege against Lane. Lane's status as a former director does not allow him to waive the lawyer-client privilege as a representative of Sharp, nor does...we conclude it would be inappropriate to speculate on issues not before this court. 2. Attorney billing records. ¶ 36. We next turn to appellants' argument tha...

...Democratic Party of Wash. State, 388 F.3d at 1286.) “Appropriate redactions from billing records for attorney-client privilege or work prod...the purposes of protecting attorney-client communications and attorney work product. (ECF No. 240 at 10-11.) Defendants note they would be willing to submit unredacted copies of the billing entries...as a “blanket assertion of attorney-client privilege” which is “‘extremely disfavored.'” See Gashtili v. JB Carter Properties II, LLC, No. 2:12-CV-00815-MMD, 2013 WL 5837001, at *1 (D. Nev...

...protecting its constituents' rights to an efficient and accurate voting system. The Webb Law Firm's billing records are also privileged because they reveal the nature of the services Shamos rendered. ...Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania agreed and held, inter alia, that the documents Shamos created were not protected by the attorney-client privilege. Our review of the record..., however, compels us to conclude that Shamos, who was retained through his law firm and participated in contract negotiations, acted as the County's attorney and, thus, the attorney-client privilege...

...communications," which are protected by the attorney-client privilege. As the party resisting discovery through the assertion of a privilege, Dustex has the burden of showing that the attorney-...the Court has not found any Iowa case directly on point, the overwhelming majority of cases from other jurisdictions hold that an attorney's billings and invoices are protected by the attorney-client privilege only to the e...by the attorney-client privilege to the extent that they reveal the nature of services performed and/or the type of work performed by an attorney. Thus, billing statements and records that...

.... App. 4th 1519, 1533 (2011). III. Whether the Filing of Billing Records in the Central District Action Waived the Attorney-Client Privilege . Defendants...argue plaintiff voluntarily waived the attorney-client privilege as to all matters mentioned in the billing records when it filed them in the Central District action to support its request for...reimbursement of attorney's fees and costs. [Doc. No. 127, at pp. 4-5.] In its Opposition to defendants' Motion, plaintiff conversely argues the filing of billing records in the Central District action did not waive the ...

...attorney-client privilege. See Chaudry v. Gallerizzo, 174 F.3d 394, 402 (4th Cir. 1999) ("Typically, the attorney-client privilege ...the work performed are usually not protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege). Therefore, the Court grants Defendants' motion to compel (document no. 18) as to Defendants..., 974 F.2d 127, 129 (9th Cir. 1992) (the identity of the client, the amount of the fee, the identification of payment by case file name, and the general purpose of...

...(a)(2).16Movant is a client of LOCL, and his asserted property interest is in LOCL's billing records "related to legal work done on behalf of the firm for Movant."...can and have adequately addressed the issue of the protection of attorney-client communications."20Defendants maintain that "[t]he discovery of any of Mr. Wells'[s] billing ...to make all of Movant's arguments regarding the firm's billing records, and that it has done so throughout the course of this litigation. In response to Defendants' Requests for Production, LOCL objected to the discovery of ...

...that the documents were protected by the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. The Court ordered production of the billing records. ...opposed to Plaintiffs' use of the billing records to resolve the fee dispute, but Defendants ask the Court to keep the documents under seal in order to protect them from public view. (Doc. 454.) They contend that the public interest...). Attorney billing records are protected by the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine insofar as they reveal the nature of the services provided. See Bre...