Klein v. Lancer

On this petition for writ of certiorari we are asked to limit the scope of pretrial discovery on the basis that some of the documents that respondent has requested to be produced by petitioner (an attorney) would violate the attorney-client privilege.

This court previously granted a petition for certiorari in this case and held that certain materials requested in respondent’s notice to produce were overbroad and irrelevant. Klein v. Lancer, 436 So.2d 137 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983). There is now apparently some doubt by the parties and the trial court as to whether further limitation of discovery by…