Harris Management, Inc. v. Paul Coulombe

[¶ 1] Paul Coulombe and two LLCs under his control—PGC1, LLC, and PGC2, LLC 1 —appeal from discovery orders entered in the Business and Consumer Docket (Murphy, J.) that required the disclosure of specific communications over the assertion that those communications were protected by the attorney-client privilege. Coulombe contends that the court erred in determining that (A) Coulombe’s communications with his attorney that included a third party were not privileged and (B) the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege applied to allow the disclosure of other communications…