The American Bar Association has refused to amend its attorney-client confidentiality rules to permit attorneys to breach confidentiality if a client is committing a crime or fraud.

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The American Bar Association (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct do allow attorneys to breach confidentiality under certain circumstances, including preventing reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm, or to prevent the client from committing a crime or fraud that is reasonably certain to result in substantial injury to the financial interests or property of another and in furtherance of which the client has used or is using the lawyer's services.

The American Bar Association Has Refused to Amend Its Attorney-Client