HODGSON RUSS, LLP, v. TRUBE

No. 4D03-4291.

867 So.2d 1246 (2004)

HODGSON RUSS, LLP, Petitioner, v. James B. TRUBE, Personal Representative of the Estate of Margaret Ott Jones, Deceased, and Carol Ott, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Thomas Ott, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 17, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett C. Powell, Mark Hicks and Gary Magnarini of Hicks & Kneale, P.A., Miami, and the Law Firm of Douberley & Ciero, Boynton Beach, for Petitioner.

Theodore J. Leopold and Benjamin Salzillo of Ricci, Leopold, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Respondent-James B. Trube.


STONE, J.

We deny a petition for writ of certiorari, seeking relief from an order compelling discovery. Petitioner contends that the order, compelling interrogatory responses, forces a disclosure that will constitute a breach of the attorney-client privilege.

The subject of the interrogatory is a comment made to an attorney by his client in the course of the client's bitter legal dispute with his sister over their mother's estate. The client allegedly threatened...

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