And the privilege outlasts even your own. Your secrets die with no attorney. Previously criminal law context a couple of examples men and women who have confessed to murdering people (it isn't the commission from the future crime so it is confidential) to their attorney, people is tried and in prison for the murder, and the attorney never told anyone in regards to the confession (it obviously later came out, but not in anyway that affected the client). So, essentially, your secrets are okay. ...