Legal Opinion
Quantitative Financial Strategies Inc. v. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Decided March 12, 2002No. 3809Published
1Opinion of the Court
HERRON, J.,
*267I. INTRODUCTION
The motion for issuance of a writ of seizure that has been filed in this case by Quantitative Financial Strategies raises the novel issue of whether a law firm may retain a copy of a client’s file after turning the entire file over to the client. For the reasons set forth below, this court concludes that QFS is not entitled to the issuance of a writ of seizure for the law firm’s copy of plaintiff’s file.
H. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff Quantitative Financial Strategies Inc. filed a complaint in replevin against its former, law firm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, seeking an order…
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