The state Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider what rules law firms must follow if they want to keep internal discussions about their potential malpractice exposure secret.
The justices granted the petition for certiorari brought by a St. Simons developer and former client of Savannah’s Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn. A superior court judge had ordered the law firm to divulge its internal communications to the former client. But in July a panel of the Court of Appeals sent the case back to Savannah under new rules that appeared to help the firm keep its discussions secret.
