CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Disclosure Protected: Examples
............Subsequent Attorneys
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Disclosure to second attorney not waiver of privilege when reasonably necessary to accomplish purpose for which attorney hired.

Evid. Code §958's provisions relating to no privilege for malpractice applies only to lawyer and client, not to communications with subsequent attorney.

No exception to attorney-client privilege for client who places state of knowledge in issue; communications with subsequent attorneys privileged even if relevant to claim against former attorney.

Waiver of privilege with one attorney is not waiver of privilege with subsequent attorney.