Upjohn Co. v. United States
Case Date: 05/05/1981
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Upjohn Co. v. United States, 449 U.S. 383 (1981),[1] was a Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a company could invoke the attorney-client privilege to protect communications made between company lawyers and non-management employees. In doing so, the Court rejected the narrower control group test that had previously governed many organizational attorney-client privilege issues. Under the control group test, only employees who exercised direct control over the managerial decisions of the company were eligible to have their communications with corporate lawyers protected.
The case also expanded the scope of the work-product doctrine.
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