Does attorney-client privilege apply to communications between a client and an administrative professional?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Welfare Rights Organization v. Crisan, 121 Cal.App.3d 904, 175 Cal.Rptr. 687 (Cal. App. 1981):

Even if the courts were at liberty to draw upon judicial precedent in construing the limits of the attorney-client privilege as defined in the Evidence Code (see Kaplan v. Superior Court (1971) 6 Cal.3d 150, 160-161, 98 Cal.Rptr. 649, 491 P.2d 1), the rule in other jurisdictions has been that the "privilege does not extend to communications between a client and administrative practitioners who are not attorneys, ... " (McCormick on Evidence (2d ed. 1972) 88, pp. 179, 180-181; 8 Wigmore on Evidence

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