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Confidentiality in a Joint Representation: What You Can and Cannot Disclose

 
Understanding joint representation and confidentiality issues can be a bit difficult. Attorneys must disclose any relevant information to their clients, regardless if it came from an outside source or an existing client; but being that joint representation alone doesn't constitute the right to share secrets from one client to another without authorization from the disclosing client, this puts the lawyer in a conundrum.