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December 2018

The Trump-Manafort Joint Defense Agreement: Urban Legend or Reality?

ethics, JDA, Jerome Corsi, Paul Manafort, Rudy Guiliani / By

Let’s start here: the government begins a grand jury investigation of an organization, say a political campaign. Certain campaign employees receive grand jury subpoenas to testify in front of the grand jury. Other employees receive “target letters” from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, informing them that they are targets of a grand jury investigation. Based on

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Perils of Joint Representation: Takeaways From the Cynthia Baldwin Matter

Cynthia Baldwin, ethics / By

Conflicts and confidences are the ­ethical tripwires of our profession. What may seem like a reasonable ­assumption about the alignment of parties and the necessity of maintaining confidences at the outset of a case can quickly become a quagmire, especially in the ­context or ­organizational or joint representations. The Cynthia Baldwin matter demonstrates how difficult

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