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Hickman Supreme Court Case Study
The Supreme Court established the work-product doctrine in
1947 in Hickman v. Taylor.
6 In Hickman, the Court held that an attorney’s notes taken during interviews with witnesses in anticipation of litigation are not discoverable.7 To prepare for litigation, the Court said, our system must enable an attorney to “sift what he considers to be the relevant from the irrelevant facts, prepare his legal theories and plan his strategy without undue and needless

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