I am an attorney on the Cooperating Attorneys list. EFF regularly sends emails asking for people interested in assisting.

Your claim is based on the knowledge of what actual facts?

(That said, I can see another problem in cases such as this: what if some of the "volunteering lawyers" are set by the government?).

> (That said, I can see another problem in cases such as this: what if some of the "volunteering lawyers" are set by the government?).

My IANAL guess is that they would still be bound by client/attorney privilege, and they'd be committing a crime if they violated that.

Do you have something to back your statements?

says you.