Lama v. Preskill

Plaintiff, Grace Lama, appeals a contempt order imposed against her and her attorney, Edmund J. Scanlon, when they refused to produce documents that the trial court ordered them to turn over. Plaintiff argues that the documents are protected by the attorney-client privilege and are not discoverable. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial court’s judgment that the contested documents are not protected by the attorney-client privilege, but we vacate the contempt order.

On May 15, 2001, plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that defendant, David Preskill, M.D., negligently performed a…