Sage Realty Corp. v. Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn LLP

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a former client was presumptively entitled to both “end-product” documents and “work product materials, for the creation of which they paid during the course of the firm’s representation’
• concluding that under New York law, “upon termination of the attorney-client relationship, where no claim for unpaid legal fees is outstanding,” the client is “presumptively accord[ed] . . . full access to the entire attorney’s file on a represented matter with narrow exceptions”
• collecting cases and state bar ethics opinions indicating that client is entitled to “full access to the entire attorney’s file on a represented matter with narrow exceptions”
• “Barring a substantial showing by the [lawyer] of good cause to refuse client access, [clients] should be entitled to inspect and copy work product materials, for the creation of which they paid during the course of the firm’s representation.”
• civil action between firm and its | ¡¡former client over right to client’s papers where court looked to other states interpreting their rules
• “Among the duties of an attorney as a fiduciary and agent of the client are those of openness and conscientious disclosure.”

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