Legal Definition of work product doctrine
: a doctrine or rule that protects an attorney's work product from discovery
— called also work product rule
Note: This doctrine applies to work product of all kinds, but it may be waived for certain materials (as documents) if the party seeking discovery shows that it has a substantial need of the materials in preparing its own case and that it is unable without undue hardship to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means.
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