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FROM THE EDITOR…

We welcome you to the inaugural issue of the Criminal Litigation Committee’s Newsletter. Federal criminal law continues to evolve quickly, and it is increasingly important in these often complex and high-stakes matters to be aware of the latest developments. While many criminal law practitioners manage to stay current on the law in their circuit, few can follow developments in other circuits. Through this newsletter, we hope to present to you, on a semi-regular basis, concise and informative pieces on the most important decisions from federal district and state and appellate courts around the country. From privilege to Apprendi, from the grand jury to the Guidelines, this issue offers a wealth of information to criminal law practitioners.

While the inaugural issue focuses on case law, we hope over time to include coverage of significant enforcement efforts and events. As you know, much of criminal law is made each day in the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and Main Justice, and not in our federal courts. As the number of white-collar investigations and prosecutions continues to escalate, particularly in the areas of health care fraud and abuse, computer-related crimes, intellectual property and trade secrets and accounting cases, we would like to keep you informed of significant developments and trends outside the courthouse.

We will also feature more lengthy pieces, as we do this month. David Zornow and Keith Krakauer cogently address the corporation’s loss of privilege in the age of broadly defined “cooperation”.

We thank our contributors for their hard work and input. We welcome new contributors of short or long pieces. Please forward them to my colleague, Monika Lahiri (mlahiri@wiggin.com), whom I thank for her great effort in putting this publication together.

I hope you find the Criminal Litigation Newsletter informative, helpful and enjoyable. I am eager to hear suggestions for improving it and to receive your submissions for future articles.

ENJOY!

David B. Fein

ABA members can download the newsletter at http://www.abanet.org/litigation/newsletters.