Two state high courts ruled this week that the attorney-client privilege means that lawyers need not open confidential talks with their in-house counsel to clients bringing malpractice claims, as a third highest court prepared to mull the same question.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Wednesday in RFF Family Partnership LP v. Burns & Levinson. The next day, the Supreme Court of Georgia issued a similar ruling in St. Simon’s Waterfront LLC v. Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn. Meanwhile, a case raising the same question against Davis Wright Tremaine was at the briefing stage before the Oregon Supreme Court.
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