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RAYMOND v. N.C. POLICE BENEVOLENT ASS'N.

No. 230PA10.

721 S.E.2d 923 (2011)

365 N.C. 94

Langdon B. RAYMOND v. NORTH CAROLINA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC., a North Carolina Corporation; Southern States Police Benevolent Association, Inc., a Florida Corporation; and John Midgette.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 8, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Contrivo & Contrivo, P.A., Asheville, by Frank J. Contrivo, Jr. , for plaintiff-appellee.

Roberts & Stevens, P.A, Asheville, by Kenneth R. Hunt , for defendant-appellants.

Katherine Lewis Parker for ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation; Patterson Harkavy LLP, by Burton Craige , Raleigh, for North Carolina Advocates for Justice; Thomas M. Stern , Durham, and Ferguson, Chambers, Stein, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., by John W. Gresham , for North Carolina Association of Educators; Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP, Greensboro, by Jon Berkelhammer , and McAngus Goudelock & Courie, PLLC, Charlotte, by John T. Jeffries , for North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, amici curiae.

McGuinness Law Firm, Elizabethtown, by J. Michael McGuinness , for National Association of Police Organizations, amicus curiae.

NEWBY, Justice.

In this case we must decide whether a professional membership association, one of its members, and an attorney hired by the association to represent that member established between them an attorney-client relationship. Recognizing its tripartite nature, we conclude this relationship is that of attorney and client such that certain communications within it are privileged. An in camera review by the trial court is the appropriate mechanism to...

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