A federal judge has ruled that most of the communication between a plaintiff and his former lawyer is covered by attorney-client privilege during the man’s deposition in a suit he filed against his business partners and their lawyer.

After a deal soured to expand his fire-fighting equipment maintenance business into franchises, Edward O’Kinsky sued the two men with whom he had signed a contract and the lawyer who wrote it, alleging that it differed significantly from the verbal agreement that the trio had made.

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