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Access-to-attorney issues at immigration detention facilities can include policies requiring lawyers to schedule visits days in advance, detainees being transferred after visits are scheduled, and administrative scheduling delays that prevent attorney meetings before legal deadlines.

State bar authorities can disbar attorneys for professional misconduct, including promoting false or knowingly unfounded claims related to legal matters.

Judicial remedies in immigration detention cases can require facilities to provide detainees private, cost-free access to attorneys and to supply lists of pro bono attorneys in relevant languages, and can bar officials from misrepresenting documents presented to detainees.

Courts can impose professional sanctions — including monetary fines, public reprimands, and referral to advisory or disciplinary panels that may affect eligibility for court-appointed cases — when attorneys submit filings containing fabricated case citations generated by AI.

The Department of Homeland Security Form G-28 authorizes an attorney to represent a client in immigration matters and permits the attorney to receive official correspondence and communicate with government agencies on the client's behalf.

Allowing third parties to eavesdrop on privileged attorney-client communications constitutes a violation of attorney-client confidentiality and professional legal ethics.

In family court custody disputes, attorneys can subpoena federal investigators, state child welfare agency investigators, and other third-party witnesses to compel testimony or evidence.

Status hearings in U.S. federal district courts allow defendants and their attorneys to update the court on scheduling, progress, and deadlines for discovery, motion filings, and settlement talks.