attorney-client
Legal counsel bond
Attorney-client describes the confidential relationship between a lawyer and the person they represent.
The term appears most often in attorney-client privilege, the legal principle that communications between lawyer and client cannot be compelled as evidence.
This protection encourages candid disclosure: Everything we discuss is protected by attorney-client privilege.
Quality of protecting secrets
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- waiverFormal surrender of rights
- protectionGuarding against harm
- disclosureAct of revealing information
evidentiary · immunity · legal advice · work product · in camera · sealed · redacted · assertion
Depiction or likeness
- retainerUpfront professional fee
- engagementCommitment to wed or attend
- fiduciary dutyObligation to act loyally
- conflict of interestCompromised impartiality from competing stakes
informed consent · termination · scope · trust · obligation · withdrawal · competence · diligence
confidentiality
Quality of protecting secrets
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
- waiverFormal surrender of rights
- protectionGuarding against harm
disclosure · evidentiary · immunity · legal advice · work product · in camera · sealed · redacted · assertion · invocation
representation
Depiction or likeness
- retainerUpfront professional fee
- engagementCommitment to wed or attend
- fiduciary dutyObligation to act loyally
conflict of interest · informed consent · termination · scope · trust · obligation · withdrawal · competence · diligence · malpractice
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
- confidentialconfidential, secret, private, classified, undisclosed
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
- confidentialityNDA, non-disclosure, nondisclosure, confidentiality clause, confidentiality
- Speech Limitsdefamation, libel, slander, obscenity, incitement
- testimonyoral testimony, court testimony, sworn testimony, witness statements, sworn statements
attorney-clientpublic record
Officially accessible government information
discoverable · on the record · disclosed · unprivileged · court transcript