Alaska Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (AKACDL)

The benefits for Alaska Attorneys joining AKACDL include:

• quality CLE seminars;
• invitation to the annual "All-Stars Conference, half-day educational seminars, and luncheon meetings;
• access to the members-only section of the website containing over 800 pleadings, briefs, motions and memoranda;
• access to the AKACDL listserve; and
• a voice before the legislature in Juneau on criminal justice issues.

The AKACDL membership classifications include: regular member, association member, new lawyer member, public defender member, and public defender association. The annual dues range from $250 for regular members to $125 for public defender members.

Former prosecutors with any local, state, or federal prosecuting agency are ineligible for membership for one year after such employment. Otherwise, former prosecutors can become members only upon a vote of approval by a majority of the AKACDL board.