Jon Polenberg of Becker & Poliakoff in Fort Lauderdale represents the creditor trustee in an adversary complaint against Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., which Carlton Fields represented in a joint venture agreement. Courtesy photo.
Attorney-client privilege exists to encourage clients to speak freely gain their counsel's advice. But that protection doesn't apply to clients simultaneously engaging in criminal or fraudulent activity.
October 11, 2019 at 01:55 PM
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The debtor in a Florida bankruptcy case must turn over privileged communications and documents from former counsel at Carlton Fields in litigation involving a transaction that has exposed the Am Law 200 firm to a malpractice lawsuit.
Florida title company ATIF Inc. came out on the losing end of a creditor trustee’s motion to compel discovery of the communications between ATIF and Carlton Fields, which worked on negotiations in a joint venture agreement.
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