legal confidentiality
Lawyer-client protected communications
Legal confidentiality is the obligation to keep certain information private within professional relationships.
Attorneys must protect client communications, doctors must safeguard patient records, and therapists must not disclose what clients reveal in sessions.
The duty typically survives the relationship's end and may be enforced by professional sanctions or lawsuits: The firm was sued for breaching legal confidentiality when an associate discussed the case at a dinner party.
- attorney-client privilegeProtected communications with counsel
- privileged communicationLegally exempt disclosure
- non-disclosure agreementContract binding parties to secrecy
- professional integrityAdherence to occupational principles
- spousal privilegeSpouses can't be compelled to testify
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Officially accessible government information
public disclosure · freedom of information · public access · open court · transparency
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Act of revealing information
revelation · exposure · breach of confidence · leak · whistleblowing
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Right to state information
sunshine laws · open justice · public accountability · mandatory reporting · right to know
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