Why Belong to NACDL?
MEMBERSHIP MAKES A DIFFERENCE
When you belong to NACDL, you take a step toward enhancing your own career through the networking, peer support, and educational tools NACDL provides.
As a member of NACDL, you are part of a network of criminal justice lawyers and advocates who value fairness, reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal justice system, and redressing systemic racism.
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Here are some of the reasons NACDL members are among America's most knowledgeable, best-connected criminal defense lawyers:
- Connect, learn & strategize with other members on our discussion groups at NACDLConnect! Search past communications as well as participate in current discussions.
- Get ten issues of The Champion every year - read it on paper, online, or on your phone! Members can search archived issues online. What a great resource!
- Your membership pays for itself with discounts from our NACDL Affinity partners.
- Updated and Reorganized NACDL Resource Center featuring the Engage and Exchange discussion series, case-based tools, forensics resources, an expert database, and postconviction materials.
- Support the profession through NACDL's advocacy work in the legislatures and in the courts.
- The Daily Criminal Justice Briefing is a digest of criminal justice articles from journals and media outlets, in your email inbox every day.
- Discounts on NACDL's top-notch, defense-only, CLE events.
- Discounts on NACDL educational products, including resource manuals and trial guides that cover a wide variety of topics and specialty areas.
- If you are threatened in any way for providing legal representation to a client - if you're subpoenaed, cited for contempt, hit with a bar grievance or a motion to disqualify you from a case the NACDL Strike Force will review your case, at no cost.
- NACDL has partnered with Association Health Programs (AHP) to offer NACDL members a variety of health insurance programs.
- Build your network of contacts, sharpen your leadership skills, and maximize your membership investment by joining an NACDL Committee, Task Force, or discussion group.
- Receive litigation assistance in cases raising new Fourth Amendment concerns through NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center.
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Share your knowledge and practical tips by writing an article for The Champion.
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Support NACDL as it leads the way through its Amicus Curiae program.
| Membership Categories | Dues |
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| Regular Member - Criminal defense attorneys in private practice, admitted to the bar more than six years | $349 |
| Public Defender - Full-time attorney at government Public Defender office or legal services nonprofit. Does not include assigned counsel or contract work. | $145 |
| New Lawyer - Private attorneys in their first six years of practice, based on date of first admission to the bar. | $205 |
| Law Professor - Professors employed full time on the faculties of accredited law schools. | $215 |
| Military - Full-time, active duty military lawyers engaged primarily in criminal defense. | $215 |
| Judge - Full-time members of the judiciary | $215 |
| Associate Members - Persons who are not criminal defense lawyers, but whose work supports the criminal defense profession, including non-lawyers who support the goals and objectives of NACDL. | $215 |
| International - Criminal Defense Lawyers who hold passports from countries other than the United States and Canada. International members do not receive a print version of The Champion®. You can access the online magazine here. Print copies can be requested, but shipping charges will apply. | $205 |
| Law Student - Students in an accredited law school working toward a J.D. degree. Membership is FREE. Click here for more information. | |
| Life Member* - One-time contribution or 5 yearly installments of $1,300 each. Expanded online profile. | $6,500 |
| Presidents Club * - Donor Member, with an expanded online profile | $759 |
| Sustaining Member * - Donor Member, with an expanded online profile | $529 |
For your protection, we cannot accept credit card information by email. Please Note: Annual Dues may be deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense for federal income tax purposes. NADCL estimates that 1.6% of your total membership dues are allocable to lobbying activities of the Association and therefore not deductible for income tax purposes as ordinary and necessary business expense. $90 of annual dues applies to a one-year subscription to The Champion. Contributions to the NACDL Foundation for Criminal Justice are fully tax-deductible.
