CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Corporate Entity Clients
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Attorney-client privilege applies to confidential communications between law firm partner and associates investigating another firm attorney's wrongdoing.

A corporation's in-house counsel is afforded the same protection as outside counsel with respect to the work- product doctrine and the attorney-client privilege.

Trustee of private express trust may assert attorney-client privilege against beneficiaries seeking to compel it to disclose its privileged communications with attorneys.

Corporate clients also entitled to protection of attorney-client privilege.

Atty-client privilege not extinguished with corp.'s dissolution; remanded to redetermine whether privilege prevents atty/Ds from defending or whether, because of crime-fraud exception or waiver, privilege is no bar to action.

Corporate director has no right to access documents covered by atty-client privilege generated in defense of suit for damages that director filed against corporation.

Trial court used overly restrictive standard re A/C privilege where it failed to take into account EC §952 and whether corporate communications not directly involving attorney, but which discuss legal advice, come within privilege.

Corporation has attorney-client privilege with counsel and shareholder does not have access to privileged documents.