The Illinois Supreme Court recently issued an order suspending an attorney for sixty days after faking an illness to avoid oral arguments before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Hazardous

In a recent decision weighing an attorney’s ethical duty of confidentiality against the government’s interest in encouraging “whistleblowers” to disclose unlawful conduct, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of confidentiality.