(a) In accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b), when a claim of privilege or work product
protection is asserted in response to a discovery request for documents, the party
asserting the privilege or protection shall provide the following information with respect
to each document in the form of a privilege log: the type of document; the general
subject matter of the document; the date of the document; the author of the document,
whether or not the author is a lawyer; each recipient of the document; and the privilege
asserted. This rule shall apply only to document requests.
(b) If information called for by one or more of the foregoing categories is itself privileged, it
need not be disclosed. However, the existence of the document and any non-privileged
information called for by the other categories must be disclosed. This rule requires
preparation of a privilege log with respect to all documents withheld on the basis of a
claim of privilege or work product protection except the following: written
communications between a party and its trial counsel after commencement of the action
and the work product material created after commencement of the action.
