Schlumberger Limited v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• refusing disclosure of communications between client and current counsel representing client in legal malpractice action against former counsel, since privilege would be meaningless “[i]f tendering the issue of damages in a malpractice action waived the privilege”
• refusing disclosure of communications between client and current counsel representing client in legal malpractice action against former counsel, since privilege would be meaningless \[i]f tendering the issue of damages in a malpractice action waived the privilege\
• “[p]rivileged communications do not become discoverable because 12 they are related to issues raised in the litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).