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More than three dozen major law firms warned, opens new tab a U.S. appeals court on Monday that lawyers will not be able to conduct effective corporate investigations unless the court overturns a decision allowing FirstEnergy investors to see documents from the Ohio utility’s internal probe of a political corruption scheme. FirstEnergy [...] has asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a May 6 ruling from U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley of Columbus, Ohio, who held that neither the attorney-client privilege nor work-product doctrine shields documents from two internal investigations conducted by outside counsel after FirstEnergy received subpoenas from the U.S. Justice Department in 2020. [...]