CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Disclos. Not Protected: Examples
............Clients' Names; Fee Arrangemnts & Bills
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Attorney must report cash payments from client in excess of $10,000 aggregate.

Attorney-client privilege ordinarily protects neither a client's identity nor information regarding the fee arrangements reached with that client.

Unless by an attorney's revealing name of client s/he would also reveal substance of communication, identity of clients not privileged.

Privacy rights of class members who contacted Ps’ counsel after neutral letter outweighed D’s need for disclosure of their names and info; A/C privilege and W/P doctrine not violated.

Names of lawyers' clients and fee arrangements not privileged unless disclosure will harm client.

Names of lawyers' clients not privileged.

Attorney-client privilege does not protect attorney's unredacted billing statements from disclosure.

Communication of client's name and payment details to grand jury not protected by attorney - client privilege; such info distinct from matter for which client sought counsel.

Attorneys must provide IRS with names of clients who pay more than $10,000 in cash; fee agreements not protected by attorney-client privilege.