Bolstering the strength of the attorney-client privilege, Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Elizabeth A. Gallagher ruled May 8 that a plaintiff suing her former lawyer for the dismissal of her medical malpractice suit cannot be forced to testify why her new counsel didn’t try to have the case reopened.
In doing so, Gallagher shut the door on Stamford attorney Matthew M. Maddox’s attempt to aide his special defense of comparative negligence by deposing his former client as to why she never sought to have her action rekindled under the state’s accidental failure of suit statute.
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