VERAS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC v. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP


52 A.D.3d 370 (2008)

860 N.Y.S.2d 78

VERAS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC, et al., Appellants, v. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided June 19, 2008.


In this legal malpractice and fraud action, defendant moved for an order compelling disclosure of communications plaintiffs may have had with their nonparty counsel as well as the work product of such counsel. The judicial hearing officer (JHO) supervising discovery granted the motion on the ground that plaintiffs waived the attorney-client privilege. Thereafter, the Commercial Division denied plaintiffs' CPLR 3104 (d) motion to vacate the JHO's order. The instant appeal...

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