July 20, 2018.  Ian Wallach elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (“NACDL”). 

The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys is the foremost legal association protecting the rights of the accused and convicted.  The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is an American criminal defense organization whose members include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors, judges, and defense counsel in international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.  NACDL, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1958, has nearly 9,000 direct members and 90 state, local, and international affiliate criminal defense lawyer organizations with a total of about 40,000 members. NACDL is committed to enhancing the capacity of the criminal defense bar to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights.  NACDL’S mission is to serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal justice system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully equipped to serve all all  all accused persons at the highest level.  For more information, see WWW.NACDL.ORG.