White Collar Advice Blog

Federal Prison Sentence Calculator: How to Estimate Your Actual Release Date
If you or someone you love is facing federal prison time, the sentence the judge hands down is rarely the time actually

Federal Prison Early Release Starts Before Sentencing
Hardly a week passes without someone getting sentenced to prison—usually to more time than they expected. They walk out of the courthouse,

Supreme Court Transforms Restitution In White Collar Cases
When I surrendered to federal prison in April 2008, restitution wasn’t my focus. I was a former Bear Stearns and UBS broker

Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp: RDAP, Daily Life, What to Expect
This page is for people who are preparing to self-surrender at Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp. It is not about the Lewisburg penitentiary

BOP Visiting Rules: Avoid the Walmart Mistake
BOP visiting rules are strange, I know. Several months into my federal sentence, my mom came to visit. Usually she’d arrive around

How to Deal With Difficult Lawyers
Preface: How to Deal With Difficult Lawyers: Silence, Neglect, and the Cost Four months after my daughter Alyssa was born in 2014,