The Court held that pleading reliance on specific expert reports to justify the reasonableness of mitigation steps may waive privilege over other reports from the same expert on the same subject matter and in the same period, even draft reports. The case also confirms that a supervising partner who was not the original author or recipient of privileged communications can provide sufficient evidence to establish privilege based on file familiarity and knowledge of the engagement.
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