A communication is “confidential” if it is not intended to be disclosed to third persons other than those to whom disclosure is in furtherance of the rendition of professional legal services to the client or those reasonably necessary for the transmission of the communication.
NRS 49.055
“Confidential” defined
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case In re Michaelson (1975)
Most recently applied in 140 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 13 - Gibbs v. State (March 2024)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 782)
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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: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.