Matter of Kaplan (Blumenfeld)

How courts have described this case

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• general rule is client’s identity is confidential, and holding that no exception applies here where client has legitimate fear or reprisal
• client's identity may be privileged if directly related to advice proffered by attorney
• “Since the client’s communication to [his attorney] was made in the aid of a public purpose to expose wrongdoing and not ... to conceal wrongdoing, the seal of secrecy should cover the client’s name_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).