Section 965 Of Article 3.5. Lawyer Referral Service-client Privilege From California Evidence Code >> Division 8. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 3.5.
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. 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.
(c) "Holder of the privilege" means any of the following:
(1) The client, if the client has no guardian or conservator.
(2) A guardian or conservator of the client, if the client has a
guardian or conservator.
(3) The personal representative of the client if the client is
dead, including a personal representative appointed pursuant to
Section 12252 of the Probate Code.
(4) A successor, assign, trustee in dissolution, or any similar
representative of a firm, association, organization, partnership,
business trust, corporation, or public entity that is no longer in
existence.
(d) "Lawyer referral service" means a lawyer referral service
certified under, and operating in compliance with, Section 6155 of
the Business and Professions Code or an enterprise reasonably
believed by the client to be a lawyer referral service certified
under, and operating in compliance with, Section 6155 of the Business
and Professions Code.