IN RE MOTION TO QUASH BAR COUNSEL SUBPOENA

Cum-09-226.

982 A.2d 330 (2009)

2009 ME 104

In re MOTION TO QUASH BAR COUNSEL SUBPOENA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kayatta, Jr., Esq., Catherine R. Connors, Esq., Benjamin W. Jenkins, Esq., Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, ME, for Verrill Dana LLP.

J. Scott Davis, Bar Counsel, Board of Overseers of the Bar, Augusta, ME, Gisele M. Nadeau, Esq., Portland, ME, for the Board of Overseers of the Bar.

Dissent: ALEXANDER, J.


MEAD, J.

[¶ 1] The law firm of Verrill Dana LLP (the firm) appeals from an order entered by a single justice of this Court (Silver, J.) denying its motion to quash a subpoena issued to its former general counsel by Bar Counsel for the Board of Overseers of the Bar. The subpoena seeks records that the firm claims are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. Bar Counsel asserts that this interlocutory appeal should be dismissed, or, as...

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