CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Disclos. Not Protected: Examples
............Not in Professional Capacity
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Privilege does not apply to communications not made in a professional capacity.

When person hires attorney, there is rebuttable presumption that attorney hired to render legal advice; rebutted by showing lawyer hired without reference to knowledge and discretion in law.