referred to as "Stern"), plaintiff, Allan Martin Stem, (hereinafter The defendant/third-party moves for an order pursuant to CPLR ~3124 and ~3126 compelling the third-party defendants, Lattera Mosiello LLP and John Lattera, Esq., (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Lattera"), to provide complete and proper responses to its demand for the production of documents, an order declaring that the attorney client privilege does not apply to communications between Lattera, or any person acting on behalf of Lattera and Bhaveen Sapra, Pratap Sapra, or any employee, agent, or persona acting on behalf of Bruckner Beverage Distribution, Inc. f/k/a PBR Beverage Distribution, Inc., and an order of spoliation concerning the intentional, careless or negligent withholding and/or destruction of relevant documents and communications in this action, or in the alternative, permitting Stern's authorized computer forensic expert to impound, clone, and inspect certain computer equipment of Lattera to locate responsive documents and communications that have either been improperly withheld, lost, or destroyed and then appointing a receiver to perform in camera review of documents recovered to insure that there is no inadvertent disclosure of unrelated and privileged materia!.
This Court, by way of prior order dated May 21, 2018 ordered that Lattera shall provide this Court with its response to Stern's First Notice for Discovery and Inspection, and revised privilege log, as provided in Stern's motion as Exhibit "I", and provide this Court with its full response, for an in camera inspection within twenty (20) days of service ofthis order with notice of entry, and no later than July 20, 2018, and further ordered that Lattera shall provide this Court with an itemized privilege log and identitY which portions of the documents produced for an in camera review by the Court are subject to the privileges claimed by Lattera.
Lattera has complied with this Court's prior order of May 21, 2018.
Upon an in camera review by this Court, the documents inspected by this Court fall within the asserted attorney/client privilege and are not discoverable.
In light of the foregoing, it is hereby ORDERED that the instant motion is denied in its entirety.