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How to Respond to a Search Warrant

By Marjorie Peerce and Mark S. Kokanovich
June 01, 2019

Imagine you are in-house counsel, working on a transactional document, when you receive a breathless call from a manager at one of your warehouses that a search warrant is being executed on the premises. What do you do?

When in-house counsel learns that a search warrant is being executed at one of the company's offices, factories, warehouses and/or other facilities, it is important to respond quickly and appropriately to what is obviously bad news. It is particularly bad news because, for the government to have obtained a search warrant, law enforcement has convinced a neutral magistrate or judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime has been committed, and that a search is justified to locate evidence relating to the crime.

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