Attorneys must maintain client confidences and secrets. While obvious, this is one of the most often overlooked obligations attorneys have, yet the consequences for violating this obligation are no less serious.
The California Bar can discipline an attorney for the failure to maintain client confidences and secrets, or for the failure to ensure others for whom the attorney has supervisory responsibility maintain client confidences and secrets. Independently, attorneys can face a legal malpractice claim for such failures.
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