All information provided, documents filed or testimony given with respect to any complaint, investigation or proceeding under these rules shall be privileged in any action for defamation. All members of the Board, of the Lawyer Committee on Assistance and Intervention, Disciplinary Counsel, and their employees, shall be absolutely immune from civil suit in the same manner as members of the judiciary in this State for any conduct in the course of their official duties.
W. Va. R. Law. Disci. Proc. 2.7