I. Introduction The rise of multidisciplinary practices among public-interest lawyers and other professionals promotes more effective and thorough services for vulnerable clients. Attorneys, counselors, social workers and others are recognizing that clients may present issues that transcend the scope and purpose of a single profession. In various forms, these professionals create formal or ad hoc partnerships as they minster to whole clients, not just to a client's peculiar, momentary problem. (2) For victims of domestic violence, these collaborations can yield more successful outcomes and fruitful service, can be necessary for competent representation, and may even be critical to her very survival. As the client works to escape a violent and oppressive relationship, her diverse professional servants must address the acute conflation of legal, medical, psychological, emotional and financial crises that beset her. Multidisciplinary practices embrace the wider context in which clients exist and ease the client's access to timely, appropriate solutions. Such practices, however, can also challenge traditional roles and boundaries among professions. These collaborations can strain ethical standards and the very foundations of a profession's purpose and culture. In particular, this promising movement generates complex problems for attorneys and counselors who are bound by distinct, sometimes contradictory, rules of confidentiality and privilege. As the creative, well-intentioned attorney works alongside mental health professionals or social workers, their exchanges and cooperation threaten precepts of confidentiality, client identification, zealous advocacy and loyalty. Current applications of professional privilege do not accommodate multidisciplinary practices adequately--they fail to afford sufficient protection for victims of domestic violence and leave clients vulnerable to continued exploitation and coercion by their abusers. The professions' ethical rules exist to protect clients and society, so the value of collaboration should prompt renewed understanding of inter-professional relationships and the rules that govern them. The very policies that justify stark limitations of professional conduct now may justify a new framework for providing services to certain clients. This Article explores the blurring boundaries of confidentiality and professional privilege in multidisciplinary practices, specifically those serving victims of domestic violence. In domestic violence practice, the problem arises when a victim of domestic violence, running for her life, finds shelter with counselors and victim advocates who engage lawyers to represent her. Although the attorney often needs information gathered by counselors, counselors may wish to share intimate information with the attorney that the client is likely too traumatized to repeat herself. The client may require the counselor in order to function in an interview with the lawyer, yet both professions' ethics of confidentiality and privilege will forbid such an exchange unless the client is willing to sacrifice her privileges with both. In such a case, a strict reading of the confidentiality rules defeats their intent to serve and protect the client's interests. Rather than favoring clients and society, current confidentiality rules may deplete services to the client, aggravate her trauma, disrupt her access to the judicial system and compromise her legal outcome. Domestic violence victims should not be made to choose between candid communication with their lawyers and counselors and potential exposure of their confidence in court. To promote better client service and access to justice, as well as to promote the policies underlying ethics rules themselves, interpretation of privilege rules should move toward a clearer understanding of domestic violence victims, their needs and the roles of the professionals who serve them. This Article first describes the experience of domestic violence victims as they encounter professionals from various disciplines and the potential for interaction and compromise among them. …