There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the lawyer or by the client, of a duty arising out of the lawyer-client relationship.
Cal. Evid. Code § 958
Lawyer-Client Privilege
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case 40 Cal. 3d 870 - White v. Western Title Insurance (1985)
Most recently applied in Hill v. Johnson (October 2023)
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.