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Attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege in the United States. Attorney–client privilege is "[a] client's right to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications between the client and the attorney." [1]
The American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility, created by the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1969, was a set of professional standards designed to establish the minimum baseline of legal ethics and professional responsibility generally required of lawyers in the United States.
1.7-1.11: Conflicts of Interest, including restrictions on attorneys arising from current clients, [9] [10] former clients, [11] prior work as a government employee or judge, [12] [13] and association with law firms. [14] 2 Counselor 2.1: Attorney's role as a candid advisor on topics within and outside of the law. [15] 3 Advocate
In common law jurisdictions, the duty of confidentiality obliges solicitors (or attorneys) to respect the confidentiality of their clients' affairs. Information that solicitors obtain about their clients' affairs may be confidential, and must not be used for the benefit of persons not authorized by the client.
The Turkish Advocacy Code's rationale for the rules of legal professional privilege is that confidentiality enables lawyers to accurately encourage strong cases, which improves the efficiency of the legal system. [17] There is a fraud exception to both litigation privilege and legal advice privilege. [17]
Recent legislation in the UK curtails the confidentiality professionals like lawyers and accountants can maintain at the expense of the state. [2] Accountants, for example, are required to disclose to the state any suspicions of fraudulent accounting and, even, the legitimate use of tax saving schemes if those schemes are not already known to ...
The Times' lawyers can share their notes with up to five outside consultants to help them understand what the code does. If one of the lawyers wants to show OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a snippet of the ...
The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened individual, but a 1976 rehearing of the case by the California Supreme Court called for a "duty to protect" the intended victim. Explicit in the court's decision was the principle that the confidentiality of the therapeutic relationship is subordinate to the safety of society and its ...