ARTICLE 3. Lawyer-Client Privilege
Article 3 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
§§ 950–962 · 14 sections
- § 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 or nation.
- § 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…
- § 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…
- § 953 As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means: (a) The client, if the client has no guardian or conservator. (b) (1) A guardian or conservator of…
- § 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 disclose, and to…
- § 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…
- § 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 plan to commit a crime…
- § 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…
- § 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, regardless of…
- § 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 a duty arising out of the…
- § 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 attested…
- § 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 to a deed…
- § 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 other writing,…
- § 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 of any of them, may…