Abrams v. Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright

NAKAYAMA, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Cades, Schutte, Fleming and Wright, a Hawañ partnership (Cades), appeals from an order of the circuit court compelling production of a document. The court ordered Cades to produce a letter over a claim that the letter was protected by the attorney-client privilege.

We dismiss this appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. This is an interlocutory appeal and was neither certified by the circuit court under Hawañ Rules of Civil Procedure (HRCP) Rule 54(b) 1 nor allowed by the circuit court under HRS § 641—1(b) (1993). Cades claims that this is an…