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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 2007 — American Bar Association President Karen J. Mathis today urged Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy to support S. 186, the so-called Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act, and overturn Department of Justice and other federal agency policies she said “erode the attorney-client privilege…the work product doctrine…[and] employees’ constitutional and other legal rights.”    » read more »

Earlier in April, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit proposing new restrictions on counsel for Guantanamo detainees contesting decisions by Combatant Status Review Tribunals that they are properly detained as enemy combatants.    » read more »