New Hampshire Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NHACDL)

For criminal defense lawyers in New Hampshire, the benefits of joining NHACDL include:

• Access to a 300-member email discussion group, or listserv, devoted to criminal practice in New Hampshire;
• The opportunity to attend training, CLEs, and workshops including a two full day annual meeting and CLE seminar;
• Networking with some of the most senior and experienced criminal defense lawyers in New Hampshire;
• Participation in policy and legislative activities that benefit the criminal defense bar ad helpful to criminal defendants;
• Access to a motions bank, a depository of unpublished trial court orders, lists of experts and other resources;
• Ability to request that NHACDL appears as amicus curiae (or "friend of the court") in appellate cases involving questions of general importance in the area of criminal practice;
• Protection of a "strike force" of attorneys who may provide free representation to any member who is "subpoenaed, threatened with criminal prosecution or subjected to a disqualification motion as a result of providing proper representation in a criminal case";
• The opportunity for referrals from the "find a lawyer" feature on the NHACDL website which allows other attorneys or members of the public to search for either state court practitioners or federal court practitioners in a particular county in New Hampshire.