The circle-**** at the office continues. We had to stand down for a half-hour or so because the wizards in IT had no documents batched up for us.
We picked back up at 5:00 p.m. and I proceeded to churn out docs for two hours. At about 6:50 p.m., ten minutes before I had to clock off (10.0 hr. max.), I was in the 302nd doc of a 304 doc batch when I saw that my doc was part of a 13 doc family of which only two were in my batch. In other words, they screwed up the batch and mingled it with docs from another batch.
The significance of this is that docs are supposed to be batched by families - that is, one doc, such as an email or letter with its attachments. This is because if one doc in a family is subject to Attorney-Client Privilege, all docs in the family must be coded as privileged and the entire family is then re-batched with other priv docs and assigned to a priv-team reviewer for further review. If the docs aren't batched correctly, privileged docs will be produced to the other side, and since we are in Federal Court, the rule is that if you release a doc that is privileged, you waive the privilege not only for that document, but for all other like documents and for the issue which is contained in those docs.
Very serious if you're facing indictment for securities fraud or some similar crime. Sorry to bore you with all this - you now know more about Attorney-Client Privilege that the high-paid Ivy League associates who putatively "supervise" us.
I'm feeling better now - a nice dinner with Mrs. MacNessa and a Robert Mondavi Cabernet have gone a long way to soothing the bete-sauvage in me!
Happy Beltaine!
"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
