If I seek ethics advice, either over the telephone or via email, is the information provided and the advice received confidential?
Yes. The Bar’s program for providing informal ethics advisories to inquiring attorneys is a desigated lawyers’ assistance program and information received by designated staff counsel from an attorney seeking an informal ethics advisory shall be confidential information pursuant to Rule 1.6(c) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Such information may only be disclosed as allowed by Rule 1.6(b), and as necessary to respond to a false or misleading statement made about an informal ethics advisory. In addition, if an attorney’s response to a grievance proceeding relies in whole or in part upon the receipt of an informal ethics advisory, confidential information may be disclosed to Bar counsel, the Grievance Committee, or other appropriate disciplinary authority.
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