As used in this article, “lawyer” means a person authorized, or reasonably believed by the client to be authorized, to practice law in any state or nation.
Cal. Evid. Code § 950
Lawyer-Client Privilege
Applied in 49 court decisions — leading case 4 Cal. 4th 929 - People v. Zapien (1993)
Most recently applied in In re Silver (February 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.