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HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON, LLP v. MOODY

S18G1436.

839 S.E.2d 535 (2020)

HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON, LLP et al. v. MOODY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 28, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Alan Rogers , NCR Corp., 864 Spring Street, NE, 20th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, Johannes S. Kingma , John Colquitt Rogers , Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP, One Ninety One Peachtree Tower, 191 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 3600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellants.

Douglas Vincent Chandler , Shaun P. Rooney , Chandler Law, LLC, 2900 Chamblee Tucker Rd., Bldg. 14 Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, for Appellees.

Matthew D. Friedlander , Caroline Johnson Tanner , Holland & Knight, LLP, 1180 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 1800 Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3407, for Amicus Appellee.

Under longstanding Georgia law, when a client sues his former attorney for legal malpractice, the client impliedly waives the attorney-client privilege with respect to the underlying matter or matters to the extent necessary for the attorney to defend against the legal malpractice claim. The issue presented in this appeal is whether...

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