This program will provide you with a real-world guide to ethical issues in ensuring that client confidences are protected. The program will cover the scope of confidentiality and the source of the duty (including in an engagement letter and under common law), its relationship to the attorney-client privilege, ensuring confidentiality the law office, the duty of attorneys to instruct and supervise paralegals and other support staff with regard to confidentiality, and when an attorney may – or is required to – break client confidences.