Lawyer-client privilege: confidential communication.

Existing law defines a confidential communication between client and lawyer for the purposes of the lawyer-client privilege as information transmitted between a client and the client's lawyer in the course of that relationship and in confidence by a means which, so far as the client is aware, discloses the information to no third persons other than those present to further client's interest or those necessary to transmit the information or accomplish the purpose of the consultation with the lawyer. This bill would provide that a confidential communication between client and lawyer includes a communication of the type described above that occurs when the client is an inmate in custody at specified institutions, or that occurs off the record of a proceeding inside a courthouse or courthouse facility, even if the client is aware that the communication is overheard or intentionally or unintentionally recorded by specified persons.