Assertion: mental impression | /r/HasProperty | protected work product
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text: In addressing the issue of whether the attorney's knowledge of the existence of documents was protected as work product, the court held that where an attorney has engaged in a selective process of compiling documents from among voluminous files in preparation for litigation, the mere acknowledgment of the existence of those documents would reveal counsel's mental impression , which is protected work product.
text: Although the rule refers to "tangible things," the " mental impressions , conclusions, opinions, or legal theories of a party's attorney or other representative concerning the litigation" (so-called opinion work product) must still be protected and courts have held such work product to be "virtually undiscoverable.