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No, that's just normal lawyering. Any lawyer worth his salt is going to claim attorney-client privilege and make the court force disclosure. The lawyer can't just volunteer the info because if the client brings an ethics violation for breach of privilege, the attorney gets sanctioned. So, every lawyer hides behind privilege until told otherwise.And Wade's team tried to block him from testifying. I wonder why? It's almost like he has information that will contradict what Willis and Wade have testified to under oath.
Similarly, every client has to assert privilege. And a client who is an attorney will absolutely do this. Again, for the same reasons. We treat every conversation with a lawyer as privileged until we're forced to treat it as otherwise.
In a high profile situation like this, the lawyers are going to be extra careful about what is and isn't privileged.