Lawyers May Reveal Secrets of Clients, Bar Group Rules Backers of an initiative to overhaul legal ethics rules, allowing lawyers more leeway to disclose client confidences to prevent fraud, injury or death, won a partial victory at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago this week.

The House of Delegates, the body that sets policy for the organization, voted 243 to 184 on Monday to approve a proposal allowing lawyers to disclose confidences when doing so prevents "reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/national/08ETHI.html -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume