Chang v. Lederman

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• holding that lawsuits based on duty to prospective beneficiaries would \inevitably be speculative\
• concluding a testator's attorney, who allegedly was directed to revise the testator's will to increase his wife’s share of the estate, owed no duty to the testator's wife to make the requested revisions
• “This privilege extends to statements made outside of judicial proceedings” when such statements are made in furtherance of the relevant proceedings
• “letter to Chang directing her to leave the Sherman Oaks residence is absolutely protected 3 under the litigation privilege codified in Civil Code section 47, subdivision (b), because it was sent 4 to further the objectives of the probate proceedings initiated by Hadar”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).