ELC 5.4
                         PRIVILEGES


(a) Privilege Against Self-Incrimination.  A lawyer’s duty
to cooperate is subject to the lawyer’s privilege against
self-incrimination, where applicable.

(b) Attorney-Client Privilege.  A lawyer may not assert the
attorney-client privilege or other prohibitions on revealing
client confidences or secrets as a basis for refusing to
provide information during the course of an investigation,
but information obtained during an investigation involving
client confidences or secrets must be kept confidential to
the extent possible under these rules unless the client
otherwise consents.  Nothing in these rules waives or
requires waiver of any lawyer’s own privilege or other
protection as a client against the disclosure of confidences
or secrets.


[Adopted effective October 1, 2002.]