CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Privileges
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Attorney-Client Privilege
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Disclosure Protected: Examples
............No Lawyer-Litigant Exception
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Trial court erred in reviewing the contents of a communication obtained by one party's counsel in determining the attorney-client privilege did not protect it.
There is no lawyer-litigant exception to attorney-client privilege.
Tendering issue of damages in malpractice case does not waive privilege re other confidential communications.