The Salvation Army is being sued because of an accident that occurring during a Salvation Army summer camp in which a child in the camp nearly drowned. After the accident, the Salvation Army attorneys directed their firm to conduct interviews with the staff present at the time, and create summaries of those interviews. The Salvation Army maintains the summaries are protected by the attorney-client privilege. You are the judge. Do you have enough information to make a determination of whether the Attorney Client privilege applies? (Note that the parties do not discuss the work product doctrine). What information do you need in order to rule on the question whether the summaries are protected by the AC privilege?

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