California Evidence Code ARTICLE 3 - Lawyer-Client Privilege

• Section 950.
  As used in this article, “lawyer” means a person authorized, or reasonably believed by the client to be authorized, to practice law in any state...
• Section 951.
  As used in this article, “client” means a person who, directly or through an authorized representative, consults a lawyer for the purpose of retaining the...
• Section 952.
  As used in this article, “confidential communication between client and lawyer” means information transmitted between a client and his or her lawyer in the course...
• Section 953.
  As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means:(a) The client, if the client has no guardian or conservator.(b) A guardian or conservator of the client,...
• Section 954.
  Subject to Section 912 and except as otherwise provided in this article, the client, whether or not a party, has a privilege to refuse to...
• Section 955.
  The lawyer who received or made a communication subject to the privilege under this article shall claim the privilege whenever he is present when the...
• Section 956.
  (a) There is no privilege under this article if the services of the lawyer were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit or...
• Section 956.5.
  There is no privilege under this article if the lawyer reasonably believes that disclosure of any confidential communication relating to representation of a client is...
• Section 957.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue between parties all of whom claim through a deceased client,...
• Section 958.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the lawyer or by the client, of...
• Section 959.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the intention or competence of a client executing an...
• Section 960.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the intention of a client, now deceased, with respect...
• Section 961.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the validity of a deed of conveyance, will, or...
• Section 962.
  Where two or more clients have retained or consulted a lawyer upon a matter of common interest, none of them, nor the successor in interest...

Last modified: October 22, 2018