LASKY, HAAS, COHLER & MUNTER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B013120.

172 Cal.App.3d 264 (1985)

218 Cal. Rptr. 205

LASKY, HAAS, COHLER & MUNTER et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; CLAIRE E. GETTY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

September 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Moses Lasky, Charles B. Cohler, Thomas E. Woodhouse, in pro. per., Richard Haas and Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Latham & Watkins, Philip F. Belleville, Morris A. Thurston, Michael R. Whalen, Ursula H. Hyman, Brian L. Becker, Overton, Lyman & Price, Edmond R. Davis, John A. Payne, Jr., Thomas M. McMahon, Pamela M. Heberton, Butler, Dan, Allis & Reback, James G. Butler, Robert C. Reback, Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr., and Dennis M. Perluss for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

WOODS, P.J.

The question to be determined in this proceeding in mandate is whether an attorney's "impressions, conclusions, opinions or legal research or theories," generated in the process of assisting a client to act as a trustee but never communicated to the client, are privileged from discovery by trust beneficiaries who seek to remove the trustee for mismanagement.

The facts material to determination of the issues...

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