District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a suit claiming breach of agreements relating to a merger, a petition for certiorari review of an order denying defendants' motion for disqualification of plaintiffs' counsel because of his receipt of attorney-client privileged documents is denied where the trial court found that the disclosure was inadvertent, and the individual plaintiff was effectively the "client" at the time the attorney-client privileged matters were generated, so that he would already have knowledge of their contents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2006
• Published 09/20/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew M. Dector of Shapiro, Blasi, Wasserman & Gora, P.A., Boca Raton, and Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul A. Traina and Rahul Ravipudi of Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack, Los Angeles, CA, and Michael J. Overbeck of Michael J. Overbeck, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondents.