A Shield For Accounting Firm Docs Under PCAOB Inspection

Law360, New York ( October 29, 2012, 2:42 PM EDT) -- It has been seven years since the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board began to inspect accounting firms. From the start, private plaintiffs — those suing accounting firms or public companies — saw these inspections as a potential source of ammunition for their own lawsuits. So these plaintiffs have repeatedly tried to compel accounting firms to produce documents that the firms created for PCAOB inspections....

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