In re the Estate of Be Gar

OPINION OF THE COURT

C. Raymond Radigan, J.

This is a motion in a contested last will proceeding for a ruling that an attorney is not barred by the attorney-client privilege (CPLR 4503) from testifying at an examination before trial, and for a further order precluding the respondent for failure to file an adequate bill of particulars.

*563This is a proceeding to probate a lost will dated January 25, 1977, a copy of which was found in the attorney draftsman’s office together with an original codicil to the January 25, 1977 will dated November 9, 1978.

On August 13, 1980, the decedent consulted another…