HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON LLP v. MOODY

308 Ga. 74

FINAL COPY S18G1436. HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON, LLP et al. v. MOODY et al. BOGGS, Justice. Under longstanding Georgia law, when a client sues his former attorney for legal malpractice, the client impliedly waives the attorney-client privilege with respect to the underlying matter or matters to the extent necessary for the attorney to defend against the legal malpractice claim. The issue presented in this appeal is whether the implied waiver extends to the client’s communications with other attorneys who represented the client with respect to the same underlying matter, but whom the…