It's not information that is protected, it is the giving of advice. Giving it away without establishing a formal, confidential relationship with accountability

It's not information that is protected, it is the giving of advice. Giving it away without establishing a formal, confidential relationship with accountability is bad for so many reasons. Probably the biggest one is that if lawyers do it, they can be fined, or face other disciplinary action by their professional body. Go to any for-lawyers-by-lawyers subreddit and they will happily explain why. Here's the Australian /r/AusLaw's explanation, linked in the sidebar and in a advice-request-detector bot: https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/zuv4m/why_cant_we_provide_legal_advice_in_this_subreddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/zuv4m/why_cant_we_p...