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A. v. B.

726 A.2d 924 (1999)

158 N.J. 51

A., individually and on behalf of minor child, C., Plaintiff, v. B., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Hill Wallack, Attorneys at Law, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided April 15, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Gibbons, Newark, submitted a brief on behalf of third-party defendant-appellant (Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, attorneys).

Mark Z. Segal and Neil M. Day, Lawrenceville, submitted a brief on behalf of defendant and third-party plaintiff-respondent (Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, attorneys; Kenneth H. Mack, of counsel).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by POLLOCK, J.

This appeal presents the issue whether a law firm may disclose confidential information of one co-client to another co-client. Specifically, in this paternity action, the mother's former law firm, which contemporaneously represented the father and his wife in planning their estates, seeks to disclose to the wife the existence of the father's illegitimate child.

A law firm, Hill Wallack (described variously...

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