My client's statements to me are within the attorney-client privilege. That's
easy.
My client's statements to his or her coach are, at least here in California,
almost certainly within the attorney-client privilege. That's pretty easy.
Does that mean I can instruct the coach that the coach is forbidden to comply
with mandatory reporting requirements that would otherwise apply to therapists?
How about my client's statements to spouse's coach and/or spouse's attorney?
Is there an argument that those statements are within attorney-client privilege?
Are my client's statements to the spouse's coach within the
psychotherapist-patient privilege?
If not, is the mediation privilege all we have?
Does California's 2006 legislative decision not (for now) to include
collaboration in the statutory mediation privilege constitute a legislative
history to show that collaboration is not within the mediation privilege?
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