Wortham & Van Liew 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.

• “In the context of the representation of a partnership, the attorney for the partnership represents all the partners as to matters of partnership business.”
• in case concerning deposition of partnership’s lawyer, attorney for partnership represents all partners as to matters of partnership business and has fiduciary duty to disclose to them all matters concerning partnership
• “although the attorney- 16 client privilege is important, even more important is that relationship which the privilege 17 is intended to protect, namely the relationship of an attorney to his client and his fiduciary 18 obligations to the client”
• attorney for partnership represents each partner, limited or general
• attorney for limited partnership owes duty to all partners

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).