Formal Opinion 480: Confidentiality Obligations for Lawyer Blogging and Other Public Commentary¶
American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. (2018). Formal Opinion 480: Confidentiality Obligations for Lawyer Blogging and Other Public Commentary: Confidentiality Obligations for Lawyer Blogging and Other Public Commentary.
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Primes¶
- Confidentiality
- Harm may aggravate the consequence but is not an element of it, which is why a disclosure revealing nothing the recipient did not already know remains a breach.
This sourceHolds that Model Rule 1.6 provides no exception for information that is generally known or contained in a public record, so the out-of-scope disclosure is itself the violation without any showing of harm or novelty to the recipient.
- Harm may aggravate the consequence but is not an element of it, which is why a disclosure revealing nothing the recipient did not already know remains a breach.
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