1. Terminating Your Current Attorney: You can terminate your attorney-client relationship at any time. However, it is crucial to do so in writing. A formal letter stating your intention to end the relationship should be sent to your attorney. This letter serves as a record of your decision and its date. 2.
Attorney-client privilege protects communications between in-house or external counsel and their clients that are (i) intended to be confidential and (ii) made for the purpose of seeking or obtaining legal assistance or advice. Generally, employees who engage and direct the lawyer are part of the client group.
Client privilege The Advocate has a duty to keep confidential the information received from and advice given to the client. Unauthorised disclosure of client confidential information is professional misconduct.
Attorney Client Privilege (Gold Standard/SUWA) -305(18) The attorney-client privilege protects information given by a client to an attorney that is “necessary to obtain informed legal advice—which might not have been made absent the privilege.
The Law Society of Kenya has a web page ( ) where you check whether your advocate is duly admitted and has taken an annual Practicing Certificate.
Lawyer: A lawyer is a person who has completed an undergraduate law degree, typically a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree. Advocate: An advocate is a lawyer who has completed additional postgraduate training at the Kenya School of Law, including a diploma in the legal field, and has successfully passed nine courses.
Advocates Training Program is conducted in 18 months; 12 months in-house and 6 months pupilage. Teaching in the Advocates' Training Programme (the ATP) is conducted on a clinical basis.