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    • News Release

    News Release ~ 05/23/2017

    Fourth Circuit Permits Mass Surveillance Lawsuit to Move Forward, but Without the Criminal Defense Bar and All but One Plaintiff -- Washington, DC (May 23, 2017) – In March 2015, Wikimedia, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, and several other organizations, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass interception and searching of Americans' international Internet communications.

    • Document

    Preserving Incarcerated Persons’ Attorney-Client Privilege in the 21st Century

    Why the Federal Bureau of Prisons Must Stop Monitoring Confidential Legal Emails

    This report by NACDL and the Samuelson Clinic makes the case for Congress to act immediately to protect the attorney-client privilege in emails sent between attorneys' offices and people in BOP custody. It also calls for the BOP to stop its practice of requiring incarcerated clients to “voluntarily” agree that their email will be monitored and that attorney-client privilege will not apply to legal emails, just as the government is required to in other contexts. [Released December 2020]
    • Document

    COPRAC Commentary to USSC 2004 Amendments to the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines

    Report of Calbar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, California State Bar Association, March 22, 2006.  The State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) commentary to Section 8C2.5 of the United States Sentencing Commission's 2004 amendments to Chapter Eight, the "Organizational Sentencing Guidelines."
    • Content Page

    Letters, Statements, and Advocacy Materials on Attorney-Client Privilege

    The attorney-client privilege is fundamental to fairness and balance in our justice system and essential to corporate compliance regimes. Without reliable privilege protections, executives and other employees will be discouraged from asking difficult questions or seeking guidance regarding the most sensitive situations. Available on this page are a variety of letters, testimony and statements on the decline of the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine.  
    • Document

    Letter to Senate Judiciary on Amending FRE to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege (January 2008)

    President Carmen Hernandez's letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership regarding A bill to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine (S. 2450, 2007).
    • Map

    The State of Prison & Jail Communication Systems

    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.
    • Document

    Comments on a Proposed Amendment to add Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 62 (February 2022)

    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).
    • Document

    Testimony to USSC on Amending Commentary on Waiving Attorney-Client Privilege (March 2006)

    Testimony of member Kent Wicker to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.
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    Prison & Jail Call Communication Systems in New Hampshire

    Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in New Hampshire
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    Prison & Jail Call Communication Systems in Guam

    Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Guam
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    Prison & Jail Call Communication Systems in New Jersey

    Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in New Jersey
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    Prison & Jail Call Communication Systems in Vermont

    Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Vermont
    • Champion Article

    Book Review: Disloyal: A Memoir by Michael Cohen

    This month John Wesley Hall reviews Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen.
    • Media

    State of Prison & Jail Communications Systems [Engage & Exchange Discussion Series]

    Featuring Pat Cresta-Savage, Gabriel Reyes, Jack Donson, and Elizabeth Blackwood

    https://www.nacdl.org/Map/State-of-Pr...​

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    Prison & Jail Call Communication Systems in Wyoming

    Attorney-client communications federal caselaw and state-specific anecdotal data in Wyoming