California employers can avoid this vortex, at least when dealing with their current and former employees. Both can be part of the "corporate client."In all but a few states, the attorneyclient privilege can protect a company's lawyer's communications with former company employees. California courts have extended attorneyclient privilege to some situations involving communication with former employees. A company's attorney-client privilege does not shield interviews with former employees, at least according to a state supreme court's divided opinion. The purpose of the privilege is to permit clients to obtain confidential legal advice and to encourage candor between lawyers and clients. Harvey Reginald Specter, JD is a former corporate attorney, one of the name partners at Specter Litt Wheeler Williams, the managing partner of Specter Litt. Erosion of attorneyclient privilege. As these claims necessitate a closer examination of the interactions between attorneys and their.