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You blink and read the language again. It makes
you want to, um, gag. It is now clear to you that
the other lawyers in this investigation have signed
the form and, because its disclosure prohibition
seems to be without limit, you realize that your
colleagues believe that they are prohibited from
sharing any information with you at all. Even
information that they may have acquired in the
course of representing their client, having nothing
to do with grand jury testimony for which they
might have been present. Entering into a common
interest agreement is out of the question. The
disclosure prohibition is breathtakingly broad
and incredibly vague (what does "any activity
or proceeding . . . concerning this Grand Jury"
mean?). It would be virtually impossible for you to
investigate, to be informed, to advise your client
and to discharge your ethical obligations if you
sign this form. In fact, the disclosure prohibition
regarding "information...obtained in the course of
the representation" appears to cover anything you
might do for this client. What are you going to do?
Pennsylvania Grand Jury Proceedings
The widespread and effective use of state grand
juries to investigate and prosecute complex criminal
activity has become more common over the last
fifteen years. The best known examples are the
investigations of Penn State/Sandusky and Kathleen
Kane, but there have been countless other grand
jury investigations both at the state and county
level.
Despite our combined decades of experience
with mostly federal grand juries representing both
targets and witnesses, those representations do
little to prepare us for what we face when we have
a client who has been subpoenaed to testify in a
state grand jury proceeding. The most notable
difference, other than the fact that attorneys are
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