Attorney-Client Privilege Waived by Parents’ Presence

A stroke victim must turn over a tape of her initial consultation with her attorney to the party she is suing, the Colorado Supreme Court said Dec. 3.

Kayla Fox didn’t show her parents were needed in the meeting, so their presence negated her attorney-client privilege, the opinion by Justice Richard L. Gabriel said.

Fox’s parents accompanied her to see attorney James Leventhal to discuss suing the chiropractor she blamed for her stroke. Fox said she needed her parents there because the stroke left her with reduced mental capacity.

Fox argued the determination of whether her parents were needed at ...