California Evidence Code

§ 965

EVID § 965 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 8 · Ch. 4 · Art. 3.5

Statute text

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a)“Client” means a person who, directly or through an authorized representative, consults a lawyer referral service for the purpose of retaining, or securing legal services or advice from, a lawyer in his or her professional capacity, and includes an incompetent who consults the lawyer referral service himself or herself or whose guardian or conservator consults the lawyer referral service on his or her behalf.

(b)“Confidential communication between client and lawyer referral service” means information transmitted between a client and a lawyer referral service in the course of that relationship and in confidence by a means that, so far as the client is aware, does not disclose the information to third persons other than those who are present to further the interests of the client in the consultation or those to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for the transmission of the information or the accomplishment of the purpose for which the lawyer referral service is consulted.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 123, Sec. 2. (AB 267) Effective January 1, 2014.