Guide for Responding to Governmental Inquiries and Investigation
 

Quarles & Brady Streich Lang, based in Phoenix, has produced a free Guide for Responding to Governmental Inquiries and Investigation. The Guide is designed to assist both lawyers and non-lawyers in first level response to government investigative tactics like subpoenas, search warrants and interview requests. The Guide gives a step-by-step approach to dealing with the government's tactics without creating more problems for the client and yet preserving information and defenses. While ideally only a lawyer should respond to governmental inquiries, the Guide provides sufficient information to enable a non-lawyer to get through the first basic steps until legal counsel can be contacted.

The Guide includes checklists for dealing with search warrants, subpoenas and interview requests. The Guide tackles the tough task of keeping the investigators away from employees and privileged documents without violating other federal or state law in the process. While no person is an even match for the government investigator, the Guide gives you the best preparation possible.

Note: this is a large file (more than 4MB) in Adobe PDF format. Allow it time to download before trying to scroll pages. If you would prefer to be mailed a hard copy, send email to enovak@quarles.com with your mailing address.

Click Here to download the guide. (PDF format)

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Integrating PR and Legal Strategies: Trial by Media

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