Section 125: Professional communications

No advocate shall at any time be permitted, unless with his or her client's express consent, to disclose any communication made to him or her in the course and for the purpose of his or her employment as an advocate by or on behalf of his or her client, or to state the contents or condition of any document with which he or she has become acquainted in the course and for the purpose of his or her professional employment, or to disclose any advice given by him or her to his or her client in the course and for the purpose of that employment, but nothing in this section shall protect from disclosure (a) any such communication made in furtherance of any illegal purpose; (b) any fact observed by any advocate in the course of his or her employment as such, showing that any crime or fraud has been committed since the commencement of his or her employment. It is immaterial whether the attention of the advocate was or was not directed to that fact by or on behalf of his or her client. Explanation.-The obligation stated in this section continues after the employment has ceased.