When lawyers aim to withdraw from a representation, they must maintain client confidentiality in all but rare circumstances, ...

Lawyers are known to "talk shop" with other lawyers, online or in person, to review hot legal issues of the day. One popular legal community is the listserv—an email group that may be tailored to a ...

Maintaining client confidentiality is a cornerstone of practicing law, and it is also essential to preserving trust and maintaining professionalism. Unfortunately, many lawyers forget or are not aware ...

Should an attorney who knows that her client committed a murder for which a wrongly convicted man spends 26 years in jail break her silence in abrogation of her attorney-client privilege? To prevent ...

In the realm of bail bonds, where legal intricacies meet personal challenges, maintaining confidentiality is not just a practice but a cornerstone of trust. Bail bond agencies play a crucial role in ...

In Formal Opinion No. 2015-192, the California State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct addressed the difficult choices faced by lawyers who are ethically required to ...

Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...