As used in this article, “client” means a person who, directly or through an authorized representative, consults a lawyer for the purpose of retaining the lawyer or securing legal service or advice from him in his professional capacity, and includes an incompetent (a) who himself so consults the lawyer or (b) whose guardian or conservator so consults the lawyer in behalf of the incompetent.
Cal. Evid. Code § 951
Lawyer-Client Privilege
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case 5 Cal. 4th 363 - Roberts v. City of Palmdale (1993)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 765 - Uber Techs., Inc. v. Google LLC (September 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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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.