West Virginia High Court Prohibits Counsel’s Deposition In Estate, Trust Dispute

( March 31, 2025, 3:07 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A trial court’s order permitting the defendants in a fiduciary duty and corporate waste case in a family-run business to depose the plaintiff’s counsel “invades the province of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine,” the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled, granting the plaintiff’s petition for a writ of petition to reverse the discovery order....