The attorney-client relationship affords a distinct, invaluable right to have communications protected from compelled disclosure to any third party. The attorney-client privilege is an essential part of the legal system that protects communications between attorneys and their clients.The Georgia attorney-client privilege laws are rules that ensure the confidentiality of communications between clients and their attorneys. Attorneyclient privilege enables the lawyer to know the full story. Confidential, with distribution limited to those in the corporation with a need to know. PART ONE - CLIENT LAWYER RELATIONSHIP. PART ONE - CLIENT LAWYER RELATIONSHIP. At early common law it was the privilege of the lawyer, and he alone could assert it "to protect his faith and honor. Attorney-Client Privilege (2002 Update), in ETHICS AFTER ENRON: PROTECTING YOUR FIRM OR. Attorney-client privilege and to make disclosure only to the extent necessary for such purposes.