He said that he would fly on Tuesday to Düsseldorf, Germany, where the tax authorities are putting him up in a five-star hotel as he prepares to divulge client secrets.
Indeed, they have the opposite obligation to maintain client secrets.
The trial began March 8 with testimony from an FBI agent who monitored phone taps and from star government witness Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey & Co executive who was another longtime friend of Rajaratnam and who said he had leaked client secrets.
"The things that help us are any negative events related to the federal government, and there have been plenty," said Bryan B. Lewis, Wright's president and chief executive, who holds a security clearance that allows him to discuss his clients' secret business.
Society wants lawyers to be able to protect clients' secrets, Ms. Collett said.
The A.B.A. proposal says only that "lawyers may reveal their clients secrets to save lives or prevent harm".
This week the American Bar Association approved a proposal to loosen the rules of confidentiality that keep lawyers from sharing their clients' secrets.
But reactions to it reveal that legal thinkers don't at all agree about what one lawyer calls "the glory of our profession" -- that is, keeping clients' secrets.
"Since April 2006, the S.E.C. has filed insider-trading-related cases against more than a dozen investment bankers, analysts and executives whose jobs required them to safeguard clients' secrets," Bob Drummond writes.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the American Bar Association is considering an expansive update of ethics rules for lawyers, which if approved would give attorneys more freedom to divulge their clients' secrets if such revelations would prevent fraud, injury or death.
