There are too many other things I'd have to keep to myself, even under client confidentiality.

Anyway, I'm sure you understand client confidentiality even in the real estate business, so I can't give out personal information from my files.

"I'm afraid that client confidentiality prevents me saying more."

And lawyers comply, because they understand such requests to be an extension of client confidentiality.

The Chase spokeswoman, citing client confidentiality, said the bank could not discuss the accounts.

At the outset the Bank insisted that the case be heard in private in order to protect client confidentiality.

I'm just a lawyer who's bound by client confidentiality.

"The status and nature of the results are bound by client confidentiality," she added.

"I mean, it never even occurred to me to think that we would violate client confidentiality."

The rigid rules governing client confidentiality seemed less constricting at that moment.