2011 California Code
Evidence Code
DIVISION 8. PRIVILEGES [900 - 1070]
ARTICLE 3. Lawyer-Client Privilege
Section 962


CA Ev Code § 962 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Where two or more clients have retained or consulted a lawyer upon a matter of common interest, none of them, nor the successor in interest of any of them, may claim a privilege under this article as to a communication made in the course of that relationship when such communication is offered in a civil proceeding between one of such clients (or his successor in interest) and another of such clients (or his successor in interest).

(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)

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