What happens if a lawyer breaks the confidentiality of a guilty client?

  • What happens if a lawyer breaks the confidentiality of a guilty client?

    Question by Frederick: What happens if a lawyer breaks the confidentiality of a guilty client?
    If a lawyer has a guilty client, and chooses to expose the client to the public and police. What happens to the lawyer? Can the client be convicted with information exposed by his lawyer?

    Best answer:

    Answer by Kenneth
    The info cannot be used against the defendant at trial and the lawyer would be disbarred and lose his job and never be allowed to practice law again.

    The lawyer would also be successfully sued by the client.

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