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Book Board
Chair: Andrew Taslitz
COMMUNICATION, MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICES DIVISION
Division Co‐Directors: Mathias Heck and Nina Marino
Our first product in Fiscal Year 2010 was a Spanish version of the Citizenship Flow
Chart Poster (Bob McWhirter). This is being sold alongside the existing English version of the
chart, with the added goal of creating marketing opportunities for two existing Criminal Justice
Section books, namely, The Criminal Lawyerʹs Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and
Answers, Second Edition and The Citizenship Flow Chart (both by Bob McWhirter).
The book publishing board currently has brought two books into publication in this
fiscal year: (1) The Fourth Amendment Handbook, 3rd Edition and (2) Warning the Witness:
A Guide to Internal Investigations and the Attorney‐Client Privilege, a practical handbook on
Upjohn warnings co‐authored by David Seide and Gary Collins.
The topic areas (criminal law, ethics, white‐collar crime, a Bill of Rights subject, and
immigration law) represent the book board’s goal to publish widely in criminal justice subjects.
To meet this goal, the board had developed a strong pipeline of publications for the next two
years. We are working toward our long‐term goal of establishing a three‐year development
cycle for books that meet a practical need, provide timely, focused information to criminal
justice practitioners, and serve the section’s interests. Although we will continue our tradition of
doing public service projects, we are trying to focus far more heavily on the profitability of
projects, subjecting them to significant market analysis as to potential audience, price, and
competitors.
Publications – Next Fiscal Year: We expect to have a strong beginning in Fiscal Year 2011. One
of the first titles we expect to publish in the first half of the fiscal year will be a book on
Contraband and Counterfeiting, a team‐written book organized by lead author Craig Stewart.
It will be followed by How to Try a Murder Case (suggested by Bruce Green); it is a teamwritten
project covering both defense and prosecution perspectives under the leadership of
author/editor Mike Wims. Both these manuscripts are near completion and undergoing peer
review.
Many more books are in development for Fiscal Year 2011 and 2012. A book on Federal
Criminal Discovery Issues (by author Rob Cary and Simon A. Latcovich) will explore Brady,
Giglio, disclosure rules, ethical duties to disclose, and special consideration. Ben Friedman and
Michael Ambrosino will co‐author How to Write a Bullet‐Proof Search Warrant. A thirdedition
update of Joseph McSorley’s Portable Guide to Federal Conspiracy Law will be written
by George Donnini and Benjamin Gluck.
We expect to publish a book on The Sixth Amendment by Paul Marcus and a small
team of co‐authors; they will offer a treatment similar to The Privilege of Silence, our 2009
book on the Fifth Amendment. The authors are already hard at work on this project.
Other working titles include Using the Media: What Prosecutors and Defenders Can,
Cannot, and Should Say and How (a multi‐author work, with a different author for each
chapter; we have lined up several of the chapter authors but are still looking to complete the
lineup); Collateral Consequences; ABA Standards – The Prosecutor’s Investigation Role
(McGregor Smyth has agreed to serve as lead editor/author); and a book on Money Laundering
(by authors Peter Henning and James Candelmo) written in a mode similar to Asset Forfeiture
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