{"id":895636,"date":"2019-03-20T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=895636"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:39:05","slug":"texas-clarifies-party-can-testify-as-expert-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/texas-clarifies-party-can-testify-as-expert-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court of Texas Clarifies That a Party Can Testify as an Expert Witness without Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donnie Apodaca | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobadfaith.com\/the-supreme-court-of-texas-clarifies-that-a-party-can-testify-as-an-expert-witness-without-waiving-the-attorney-client-privilege\/\">Avoiding Insurance Bad Faith<\/a> | March 12, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Litigation usually involves complex issues related to technology, products, or business processes. In many cases, clients are the best subject-matter experts of their craft. Nevertheless, attorneys are sometimes hesitant to designate a client or a client\u2019s employee as an expert witness for fear of waiving attorney-client privilege. In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Texas addressed this very issue and held that the attorney-client privilege remains unscathed when a party (or its corporate representative) is designated as a testifying expert witness.\u00a0<em>See\u00a0In re City of Dickinson<\/em>, \u2014 S.W.3d \u2014, No. 7-0020, 2019 WL 638555 (Tex. Feb. 15, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobadfaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/attorney-client-privilege-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-558\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>City of Dickinson<\/em>&nbsp;concerned whether a property insurer underpaid insurance benefits related to a Hurricane Ike claim made by the City of Dickinson. In responding to the City\u2019s motion for summary judgment, the property insurer filed the affidavit of its corporate representative who was also a senior claims examiner. Unsurprisingly, the affidavit offered factual and expert testimony in opposition to the dispositive motion. The City later learned the corporate representative exchanged emails and drafts of the affidavit with defense counsel.The City then moved to compel the production of the emails and all other information \u201cprovided to, reviewed by, or prepared by or for\u201d the corporate representative in anticipation of his expert testimony. Naturally, the property insurer claimed the documents were protected by the attorney-client privilege. The trial court, however, disagreed and granted the motion to compel. The intermediate appellate court reversed, finding the information sought was privileged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court of Texas\u2019s Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On appeal, the Court addressed whether Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 192.3 and 194.2 barred the property insurer from asserting attorney-client privilege. Rule 192.3 concerns the scope of discovery and provides that, with respect to a testifying expert, \u201c[a] party may discover . . . all documents, tangible things, reports, models, or data compilations that have been provided to, reviewed by, or prepared by or for the expert in anticipation of a testifying expert\u2019s testimony[.]\u201d In construing Rule 192.3, the Court noted that the use of the word \u201cmay\u201d merely meant that an opposing party&nbsp;<em>could<\/em>&nbsp;<em>discover<\/em>&nbsp;the information\u2014not that it had an absolute right to discover it when a privilege applied. The Court also noted that another subpart of Rule 192.3 expressly precluded the discovery of privileged information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule 194.2 concerns the content of a discovery tool called \u201crequests for disclosure\u201d and provides that, with respect to testifying expert, \u201c[a] party may request disclosure of . . . all documents, tangible things, reports, models, or data compilations that have been provided to, reviewed by, or prepared by or for the expert in anticipation of the expert\u2019s testimony[.]\u201d As with Rule 192.3, the Court explained that the word \u201cmay\u201d simply meant that a party&nbsp;<em>could request<\/em>&nbsp;the discovery. Another subpart of the rule expressly allowed the trial court to limit requests for disclosure, and the official comment to the rule made clear that \u201crequests for disclosure under Rule 194 are subject to the attorney\u2013client privilege just like the provisions of Rule 192.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court also rejected the City\u2019s argument that the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure should be interpreted the same as the pre-2010 Federal Rules of Civil Procedures because they were modeled after them. The Court summarily rejected the argument because the comments to the rules where substantively different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court also distinguished its decision in&nbsp;<em>In re Christus Spohn Hosp. Kleberg<\/em>, 222 S.W.3d 434 (Tex. 2007). In that case, the Court held that a party was required to produce an investigator\u2019s report provided to party\u2019s expert. The Court explained that&nbsp;<em>Christus Spohn<\/em>&nbsp;only addressed the work-product privilege\u2014not undisputed attorney-client communications. The Court explained that its holding was consistent with prior decisions, which \u201cunderscore the status of the attorney-client privilege as \u2018quintessentially imperative\u2019 to our legal system\u201d and that \u201c[w]ithout the privilege, attorneys would not be able to give their clients candid advice as is an attorney\u2019s professional duty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Takeaway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>City of Dickinson<\/em>&nbsp;provides clarity in a previously unsettled area of Texas law. Further, it reinforces the importance of the attorney-client privilege and clarifies that a client does not have to choose between testifying as an expert at trial and invoking attorney-client privilege. Going forward, we expect the primary party-expert dispute to center on whether materials provided to the party-expert constitute discoverable work product under&nbsp;<em>Christus Spohn<\/em>&nbsp;or protected attorney-client privilege under&nbsp;<em>City of Dickinson<\/em>. Indeed, as the Court noted in its opinion, the two privileges are often conflated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donnie Apodaca | Avoiding Insurance Bad Faith | March 12, 2019 Litigation usually involves complex issues related to technology, products, or business processes. In many cases, clients are the best subject-matter experts of their craft. Nevertheless, attorneys are sometimes hesitant to designate a client or a client\u2019s employee as an expert witness for fear of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/texas-clarifies-party-can-testify-as-expert-witness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Supreme Court of Texas Clarifies That a Party Can Testify as an Expert Witness without Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9895,9122,136,155],"class_list":["post-895636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-witness","tag-advise-consult","tag-attorney-client-privilege","tag-expert-witness-testimony","tag-texas","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Supreme Court of Texas Clarifies That a Party Can Testify as an Expert Witness without Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege - Advise &amp; 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