The ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE is an evidentiary rule that protects both attorneys and their clients from being compelled to disclose confidential communications between them made for the purpose of furnishing or obtaining legal advice or assistance. The privilege is designed to foster frank, open, and uninhibited discourse between attorney and client so that the client's legal needs are competently addressed by a fully prepared attorney who is cognizant of all the relevant information the client can provide. The attorney-client privilege may be raised during any type of legal proceeding, civil, criminal, or administrative, and at any time during those proceedings, pre-trial, during trial, or post-trial.

We at COELER LEGAL retain all information provided by our clients on a confidential basis. Solicitor-client communications (i.e., when our clients reveal information to us in confidence in order to obtain legal advice or services) are privileged and we cannot be compelled to divulge such communications to any other party unless expressly authorized or directed by our clients.