To add to that, your lawyer is bound by both professional, enforceable ethical guidelines as well as legal doctrine from revealing anything you've said to them in the course of their representation of you without your express consent. The number of exceptions to that is tiny. The only one that really matters is crime/fraud which relates not to your crime but using a lawyer to commit a crime. The others are either after you're dead (probate exception, where your lawyer can disclose information for the purposes of helping settle your will after your death) or are exclusively about money (your lawyer can disclose details of your agreed upon contract and payment structure if they are having to fight you to be paid).There is zero reason to lie to your lawyer, all you do is make them less prepared in their defense.
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