Benefits of Affiliation

Align your organization with the nation's preeminent criminal defense organization, and you will have access to numerous benefits and opportunities.

Exclusive Benefits for Affiliated Organizations: 

  1. Ability to put local Affiliate News in The Champion
  2. Ability to promote your local CLEs in NACDL's CLE Calendar in The Champion and online
  3. Free Annual Subscription to The Champion magazine for your Executive Director
  4. Assistance locating potential speakers for your local seminars
  5. Access to NACDLConnect - an NACDL hosted listserv for engaging, sharing, and communicatnig with all other Affiliate leaders
  6. Subscription to NACDL's E-News
  7. Access to the lobbying assistance and benefits of the State Criminal Justice Network
  8. Assistance designing and distributing local legislative alerts and more to promote criminal justice reform at the state level.
  9. Review the dates of national CLE's to avoid conflicts
  10. Access to Online Briefs & Motions Bank
  11. Host a NACDL quarterly meeting in your town and your statewide members will receive significantly reduced seminar rates
  12. Profit-sharing incentives for assisting NACDL in the promotion of our events
  13. Receive annually, (2) free NACDL memberships to auction-off at your fundraisers
  14. Receive annually, (1) free NACDL seminar to auction-off at your fundraisers
  15. Increase your statewide membership by working with our national staff on joint membership recruitment

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  1. The Champion
    March/April 2025 Cover

    March/April 2025

    What are the evidentiary implications of field sobriety tests in marijuana cases? Does the odor of marijuana give officers probable cause to search a vehicle?

  2. Amicus Brief
    March/April 2025 Cover

    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President

    Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and New York Council of Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment.

  3. News Release

    Nation’s Defense Bar Reiterates Opposition to Actions Against Law Firms – Washington, DC (March 18, 2025)

    The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) remains deeply concerned over recent executive orders targeting law firms, most recently Paul Weiss and Perkins Coie, and repeats its call to uphold the right to counsel and the independence of the legal profession. Despite a ruling blocking the action against Perkins Coie, the administration has continued to target law firms representing disfavored clients and positions, threatening the right to a zealous defense.

  4. Live Event
    2025 Forensic Science & Technology Seminar Cover

    2025 Forensic Science & Technology Seminar

    "Making Sense of Science: Forensic Science, Technology & the Law"

    LOCATION: Sahara Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
    DATES: April 24-26, 2025

  5. Trials, Technology, and the Fourth Amendment: Case Law Review [Engage & Exchange]

    EXCLUSIVE NACDL MEMBER BENEFIT
    WHEN:
    Tuesday, April 29, 2:00-3:30pm ET / 11:00am-12:30pm PT
    CLE CREDIT: not available
    COST: Free