Posts Tagged ‘Secrets Safe with an Attorney’

By law, an attorney is required to keep all communications with a client confidential and secret. This is the case even if it is only for an initial consultation, whether or not the attorney is ultimately retained.

Any attorney who would reveal such privileged or confidential information would be violating the State Bar rules. If a client places his trust in an attorney, that attorney should never betray that trust. An attorney should never disclose a client’s legal problems to anyone, without the client’s express permission. (I know some people are afraid to seek an attorney’s advice, out of fear the attorney will report them to DHS. But an attorney is forbidden, by law, from doing that.)

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