CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Litigation Privilege
.........Common Interest Privilege
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Common-interest doctrine did not extend attorney-client privilege to communications among client, his attorney and public relations consultant where consultant did not seek legal advice or form client relationship with attorney.

Chiropractor did not establish probability of prevailing on defamation claim where common interest privilege of CC 47(c) protected claims investigator's statements to assistant of lawyer representing insurance claimants treated by P.

In including new language in 1994 amendment to CC §47 (c), Legislature did not intend to make common-interest privilege inapplicable in employment reference context on a showing of D’s mere negligence.