PROCACCI v. SEITLIN

No. 86-2156.

497 So.2d 969 (1986)

Pasquale PROCACCI, Petitioner, v. Sam SEITLIN, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Schuster & Russell and Gill S. Freeman, Miami, for petitioner.

Greenberg, Traurig, Askew, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel and Alan T. Dimond and Raquel A. Rodriguez, Miami, for respondent.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

While the client, the petitioner Procacci, waived his attorney-client privilege as to a particular real estate transaction by suing his attorney for malpractice in the conduct of that transaction, see § 90.502(4)(c), Fla. Stat. (1985), and by voluntarily disclosing the substance of the communications as to that matter in the instant suit against the other party to the transaction, the respondent Seitlin, see Hoyas v. State,

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