A Lawyer's Privacy Interest – Real or Illusory?

April 15, 2014

New York attorneys have long relied on the New York Court of Appeals decision in Sage Realty Corp. v. Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn LLP to protect a category of documents within their files as to which the attorney, rather than the client, has a privacy interest and to which the client does not have a right of access. This article discusses Judge Gardephe’s recent decision in Gruss v. Zwirn highlighting the narrow scope of this privacy interest.

Attorneys

Edward M. Spiro