By Sara Kropf Lawyer Sidney Powell appeared at a press conference a few days ago as a member of the President’s legal team and made a few jarring comments (most notably about Hugo Chavez trying to rig the U.S. election). A few days later, the President’s lead personal...
By Sara Kropf The Washington Post recently published an interesting article evaluating the risk that President Trump might reveal classified information after he leaves office. The article highlights the amount of amount of classified information revealed to...
By: Sara Kropf I have a Gmail account for personal use. You likely do too. And nearly every one of my clients has one. In fact, Google owns about 43% of the email market. Gmail has about 1.8 billion users and about 306 billion emails are sent and received daily in...
By Andrea L. Moseley Just before I took a blogging detour into the world of lawyer/tennis players, I promised to post a straightforward analysis of the certifications within Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applications. Now...
By: Sara Kropf There has been a lot of news lately about grand jury subpoenas. It’s not often you see a sitting President filing multiple motions seeking to prevent his accountant from producing copies of his tax records. These are certainly unusual times. So, what...
By: Sara Kropf This is an embarrassing story. I promise it will make sense in the end. In 1991, I was finishing my senior year in high school in suburban Georgia. I’d joined the mock trial team, and we had our competition one Saturday at a nearby courthouse. I needed...
By Sara Kropf The Department of Justice has embrace electronic surveillance in white-collar criminal cases. Search warrants to ISPs or phone companies for emails and text messages, or forensic analyses of a client’s electronic devices are the norm. I tell clients that...
By Andrea L. Moseley Have you ever wondered why so many seasoned trial lawyers excel at Tennis? In my view, as a former Division III collegiate tennis player and a White Collar litigator, it is not a coincidence. Especially in the midst of this unusual pandemic Tennis...
By Sara Kropf There are a few fundamental constitutional rights for a criminal defendant. The right to a lawyer. The right to confront witnesses. The right not to incriminate yourself. And the right to a jury trial. One disappointing part of law school was learning...
The First Amendment gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. The last clause, however, is often ignored. It says that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably . . . to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Federal government employees’ rights to “petition the government” are somewhat restricted. In fact, Congress has made it a crime for federal government employees to “petition the government” on behalf of others. This is in 18 U.S.C. § 205.