(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.
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(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 based on 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.
