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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
I’m sure that I should know the answer to this, and probably did at one point decades ago, but.....
If you get disbarred, does the privilege still exist? Or, at the very least, does it still exist, but only to the extent that it pertains to that period of time when you still were a licensed attorney for the, um, defendant?
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For ever as far as i know...just because a guy gets disbarred doesnt take away that he was an attorney at the time he was told information from the client. Hard for a lawyer to give a client proper advice without knowing all the facts.
My guess is that one exception would be if the client tells his lawyer something he is going to do that would constitute breaking a law....then the lawyer could break privilege.
Or ive watched to many cop and lawyer shows.