What are the professional responsibilities of lawyers who provide legal advice to the executive branch, particularly in times of crisis? Who, exactly, is their client? Do professional responsibility standards shed any light on the circumstances that faced executive branch lawyers in the months following 9/11? What can we learn from the experience of those lawyers about competing principles of professional responsibility?

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By: George C. Harris

George C. Harris is a Partner at Morrison & Foester LLP. He served as co-counsel to John Walker Lindh (known as the "American Taliban").

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