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In February 2020, the NACDL Corrections and Public Defense Committees asked NACDL membership about how it communicated with clients in custody. The survey focused particularly on lawyers’ ability to communicate with their detained and incarcerated clients. We focus here on findings regarding confidentiality, a key requirement of attorney-client communication.
Comments to the Judicial Conference of the United States Practice & Procedure Committee regarding a proposed amendment to define how federal courts should navigate an emergency suspension of rules (new Criminal Rule 62), such as those posed by COVID-19 and directed by the CARES Act (H.R. 748, 2020).
Testimony of member Kent Wicker to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in New Hampshire
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Guam
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in New Jersey
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Vermont
This month John Wesley Hall reviews Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen.
Featuring Pat Cresta-Savage, Gabriel Reyes, Jack Donson, and Elizabeth Blackwood
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Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Wyoming
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Wisconsin
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in West Virginia
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Washington
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Virginia
Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in U.S. Virgin Islands