Attorney-client privilege and work-product protections will not bar discovery in a Dragonetti Act case against a Delaware County firm, even though the underlying matter is ongoing, the state Superior Court has ruled.
A three-judge panel of the court ruled that, because the defendants in the case argued they relied on good-faith bases for initiating the underlying case, the conversations between the defendant attorney and client should not be barred from discovery in the related Dragonetti action. The court’s decision Tuesday in Brown v. Halpern denied the defendants’ motion to quash a discovery order regarding the basis for the underlying claim.
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