Callahan v. Nystedt

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter came before the Supreme Court pursuant to a petition of the defendant, an attorney, for an issuance of a writ of certiorari to review an order of the Superior Court requiring him to produce the contents of his files on three separate clients. We deny the petition and remand the matter to the Superior Court.

Between 1987 and 1990 defendant, Charles M. Nystedt (Nystedt), a member of the Rhode Island Bar, was an employee of plaintiffs, James Byrne Callahan and his law firm, Callahan & Sayer, P.C. (Callahan). 1 An oral agreement existed between the parties under…