Should Lawyers Be Able to Publish Confidence-Ridden (or Guilt-Ridden) Memoirs?

Over at the Australian Professional Liability Blog, barrister Stephen Warne asks that question, and relates the example of a criminal defense attorney, John Marsden, who felt the need to unload his views on (and details about) a notorious rapist-murderer client.  “Criminal lawyers have to live with secrets which bear down heavily onthem. Perhaps it is not surprising that Marsden made the disclosure.But where was the reportage that this was a serious transgression? I amnot speaking of condemnation, but rather an acknowledgment that this isnot as it should be.”  Warne then makes an analogy to the Britney Spears-Dr. Phil situation.  [Alan Childress]