there nevertheless are certain factors which cast doubt upon the propriety of such an W.Va. 368, 373, 489 S.E.2d 750, 755 (1997) (per curiam) (“An attorney occupies a position of trust with regard to his or her client.”); Committee on Legal Ethics of The West Virginia State Bar v. White, 176 W.Va. 753, 756, 349 S.E.2d 919, 922 (1986) (per curiam) (observing that, in a relationship between a client and his/her attorney, “[t]he client comes to the attorney trusting in his expertise and honesty”). In essence, an attorney is a repository of the client’s confidences, and the trust a client places in his/ her lawyer is so highly esteemed, and deemed so integral to a successful attorney-client relationship, that it has been afforded a status of privilege. See, e.g., W. Va. R. Evid. 501 (<HOLDING>); State v. Fisher, 126 W.Va. 117, 121, 27
recognizing common law right of access to judicial documents recognizing a common knowledge exception holding that privileges and immunities clause protected right of noncitizen to engage in construction work and noting that the pursuit of a common calling is one of the most fundamental of those privileges protected by the clause recognizing common law privileges holding that a federal court may resort to state law analogies for the development of a federal common law of privileges in instances where the federal rule is unsettled