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Required to Report a Client’s Drug Addiction? Illinois Says Not Necessarily…

by in Ethics Opinion, Featured. Posted April 14, 2017
A recent Illinois ethics opinion, advised that although a lawyer is obligated to reveal confidential information about a client if is deemed reasonably necessary to prevent certain death or substantial bodily harm, a client’s addiction to heroin or opioid drugs will not trigger that obligation, absent more specific factual details that indicate the risk is not simply remote and uncertain.
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It’s Like Leaving the File on a “Bench in the Public Square”: Unsecured Storage Results in Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege

by in confidentiality, Featured. Posted March 21, 2017
Recently, a Virginia federal magistrate judge held that a party waived its attorney-client privilege when it posted unsecured, confidential information to a file-sharing website. Citing public policy reasons, the court ruled that uploading a file that was not password protected and available to anyone on the Internet to view is akin to leaving the file on a “bench in the public square.” storage
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