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(IAAL but this is not legal advice.)

Reliance on advice of counsel is not a blanket defense against any arbitrary crime you could be charged with or civil liability you might face. It is only a defense in a certain limited set of circumstances; and it also requires you to waive attorney-client privilege.

See https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... for a good, if dated, overview of the law.




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