In a rare move, a judge has ordered the disclosure of communications between attorneys and a New York businessman facing a civil suit alleging he and others misappropriated $13 million in a real estate deal.
Communications between defendant Moses Stern and attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney; Herrick Feinstein; and Hoffinger Stern & Ross concerning certain transactions "are deemed unprotected" by the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine, Southern District Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein (See Profile) found in Amusement Industry v. Stern, 1:07-cv-11586.
