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Friday, March 07, 2003

ABA opposes requiring lawyers to tell on money-laundering clients
Bernard Hibbitts at 1:42 PM ET

[JURIST] In a letter sent Thursday to the Senate Judiciary Committee leadership, American Bar Association President Arthur Carleton Jr. registered the ABA' s opposition to an international task force proposal that would require lawyers to report to a government enforcement agency information of "suspicious" activities relating to possible money laundering by their clients. Read the ABA letter.






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