Alert: I'll be doing a CLE teleconference program on June 30 on legal issues involved in government-sponsored use of social media for the ABA Government and Public Lawyers Section. The other panelists are Murray Weed, Of Counsel with Freeman, Mathis and Gary in Atlanta and Lyrissa Lidsky, a professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Mission Statement for This Website:

  • Share information of use to federal lawyers.
  • Support various related projects.

I welcome suggestions for making this site more useful. I also maintain a different website, Netlawtools, for Internet projects not necessarily related to the federal government.

Ethics for Government Employees

  • IEC Journal. I founded this website for the Interagency Ethics Counsel in 2004 and have moderated it since that time.
  • Ethics Training Tips. This is the archive of a column I write for the IEC Journal website.

Supporting Criminal Investigators

The Art of the Referral. This article, co-authored with Kelly Sisario (auditor) and Bruce Sackman (investigator), advises criminal investigators on the best ways to present cases to prosecutors. Originally published in The Journal of Public Inquiry, this article has been used as training material at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Presentations for Investigators
  • Risky Business. Entertaining overview of ways investigators can get in trouble.
  • Inspector General Subpoenas. Covers legal and practical aspects of Inspector General subpoenas.
(Both presentations are in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Not available for download from this site. Use Contact button to ask about access information)

Articles on Internet Use by Government Lawyers