The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a Pennsylvania estate lawyer cannot assert attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine to quash a subpoena seeking her ex-client’s entire file for use in a Florida will contest action.

According to Superior Court President Judge Susan Peikes Gantman’s nonprecedential Oct. 23 opinion in Huber v. Noonan, West Palm Beach, Florida-based attorney Jami Huber is representing several relatives of decedent Clara Anna Claitor in a lawsuit filed in Osceola County, Florida, challenging Claitor’s revised trust. The revised trust, which was prepared with the help of a Florida attorney, altered a trust originally prepared by Pennsylvania attorney Susan Noonan and served to cut out Huber’s clients in favor of making Claitor’s great-niece, Karen Nannette Woods, the sole beneficiary.