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Criminal

Apr. 22, 2006

Constitution Will Not Protect Clients From Lawyer's Breach

Focus Column - Laurie L. Levenson - Attorneys are sworn to keep their clients' communications confidential. In fact, an attorney is required "[to] maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril to himself or herself, to preserve the secrets of his or her client."

Focus Column

Laurie L. Levenson
     
      Attorneys are sworn to keep their clients' communications confidential. In fact, an attorney is required "[to] maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril to himself or herself, to preserve the secrets of his or her client." California Business & Professions Code Section 6068(e). California Evidence Code Section 952 also makes confidential c...

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