To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Although fortunately rare, lawyers' depositions almost always involve complicated privilege issues. One might argue that just about every question posed to a lawyer would justify a privilege assertion — but that would go too far. In Evanston Insurance Co. v. Murphy, No. CV-19-04954-PHX-MTL, 2020 U.S. Dist. 218817 (D. Ariz. Nov. 23, 2020), a non-party lawyer's deposition triggered privilege objections and challenges to those objections. The court carefully sorted through the deposition transcript, and understandably distinguished between non-objectionable and objectionable questions. For instance, the court held that questions about whether the deponent/lawyer represented certain entities "did not involve privileged material."