Hathorn v. Lovorn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attorney-client relationship for the purposes of joint-client privilege can only be formed by express or implied contract
• identifying 10 11 non-exclusive factors bearing on the question of whether two or more people may be deemed 12 “Joint clients”
• finding no joint client exception, in part because it “would unjustifiably require parties far too often to bear the expense and strain of retaining two sets of lawyers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).