Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Sep. 1, 2017
Confidential information of a client (Rule 1.6)
See more on Confidential information of a client (Rule 1.6)Proposed Rule 1.6's black-letter rule, which largely mirrors current Rule 3-100, does not propose to add any of the Model Rules exceptions or any other new exception. By Wendy Chang
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Wendy Chang
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Loyola Law School, 1995
Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.
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PROPOSED RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
California’s duty of confidentiality for lawyers is unique. It is the strongest lawyer duty of confidentiality in the nation, rooted in statute. California Business and Professions Code Section 6068(e)(1) states that it is the duty of an attorney, “[t]o maintain inviolate the confidence, and at every peril t...
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