Attorney * Client privilege violated

[Orange City]

Jurisdiction

Iowa

What is the clause # in the Iowa Code that pertains to Attorney*Client privilege be broken (violated)? thank you

 

[justblue]

What is the clause # in the Iowa Code that pertains to Attorney*Client privilege be broken (violated)? thank you

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/ACO/CourtRulesChapter/04-28-2017.32.pdf

 

[zddoodah]

The attorney-client privilege is a rule of evidence, not an ethical rule, and the link cited in the prior response contains only incidental references to the attorney-client privilege. Rule 5.502 of the Iowa Rules of Evidence discusses the attorney-client privilege

 

[Tax Counsel]

The attorney-client privilege is a rule of evidence, not an ethical rule, and the link cited in the prior response contains only incidental references to the attorney-client privilege. Rule 5.502 of the Iowa Rules of Evidence discusses the attorney-client privilege

While correct, justblue did link the Iowa attorney Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC), and Rule 32:1.6 does cover the attorney's duty of confidentiality to his/her client. The two rules are different in scope and the consequences of a violation by the attorney of either rule are different as well. I mention this because most in the public, and perhaps the OP, don't understand the various rules of attorney-client confidentiality and in my experience when a non-lawyer uses the phrase "attorney-client privilege" they more often really are referring to the duty of confidentiality.