Investigations & Emergency Response

The Initial Response

The first as­sess­ment iden­ti­fies the au­thor­i­ty mak­ing the re­quest, the re­sponse re­quired, the dead­line, and any pro­ceed­ing al­ready un­der­way. Coun­sel then con­sid­ers the client’s obli­ga­tions, the scope of the re­quest­ed ma­te­ri­al, and the le­gal is­sues that bear on a re­sponse.

Records, Testimony & Related Proceedings

In­ves­ti­ga­tions can in­volve busi­ness records, fi­nan­cial in­for­ma­tion, mes­sages, de­vices, and in­for­ma­tion held by third par­ties. Ques­tions of pro­duc­tion, tes­ti­mo­ny, preser­va­tion, and pro­tect­ed in­for­ma­tion re­quire ad­vice spe­cif­ic to the cir­cum­stances. Re­lat­ed crim­i­nal and civ­il ex­po­sure must be con­sid­ered to­geth­er.

Contacting the Firm

State the ju­ris­dic­tion, what hap­pened, and any court date or dead­line. Con­tact­ing the firm does not cre­ate an at­tor­ney-client re­la­tion­ship. Do not send priv­i­leged or con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion un­til the firm con­firms how to re­ceive it.

Congressional Inquiries

The firm’s gov­ern­ment in­quiry work in­cludes rep­re­sen­ta­tion be­fore con­gres­sion­al com­mit­tees. McBride rep­re­sent­ed Alex Bruesewitz and oth­er clients be­fore the House Se­lect Com­mit­tee in­ves­ti­gat­ing Jan­u­ary 6 and brings that ex­pe­ri­ence, to­geth­er with pro­fes­sion­al re­la­tion­ships de­vel­oped on Capi­tol Hill, to the as­sess­ment and di­rec­tion of a rep­re­sen­ta­tion.

Custody, Detention & Prison Conditions

The firm rep­re­sents clients in mat­ters con­cern­ing cus­tody and con­di­tions of con­fine­ment. McBride’s work has in­volved jails and pris­ons in New York, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Vir­ginia, and Flor­i­da, in­clud­ing chal­lenges in­volv­ing the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of Pris­ons, war­dens, and oth­er cor­rec­tion­al of­fi­cials. McBride’s work in­cludes fil­ing habeas cor­pus pe­ti­tions and mo­tions for com­pas­sion­ate re­lease.