District Court of Appeal of Florida

In an action arising out of a Coblentz settlement agreement, petition for writ of certiorari, on the issue of whether the attorney-client privilege has been waived, is granted in part and denied in part, where there was no blanket waiver of the attorney-client privilege on the question whether the Coblentz agreement was reasonable and in good faith.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2006
• Published 01/11/2006

Judges

• COPE, C.J., Before COPE, C.J., and FLETCHER and CORTIÑAS, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hunter, Williams & Lynch and Christopher J. Lynch, for petitioners., Burlington & Rockenbach, West Palm Beach, for the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers as amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lane Reese Aulick Summers & Ennis;  McKenna Long & Aldridge and J. Randolph Evans;  Bernstein, Chackman & Liss and Julia Luyster, Hollywood;  Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan Berlin and Michael S. Perse, Miami, for respondent Northern Insurance Company of New York., Bernstein, Chackman & Liss and Julia Luyster and Steven J. Chackman, Hollywood, for respondent Seitlin & Company.