Texas lawyer describes volunteering to help Guantanamo detainees SANTA FE (KSFR) - -- You know about the American Bar Association and the New Mexico Bar. But have you heard of the Guantanamo Bar Association?

It's not a formal group. But its members number in the hundreds - maybe as many as 500. They are all volunteers, offering legal services to some of the detainees at Guantanamo. And some of them come from unlikely places, like the big conservative law firms that represent some of the nation's largest corporations. They also come from small firms - among them lawyers who are conservative Republicans.

We haven't found anyone from New Mexico yet, but one of the members of the Guantanamo Bar was in Santa Fe this week to talk with colleagues here about how he volunteered to go to Guantanamo Bay to offer legal defense for some of the detainees held captive there for years.

He's Dicky Grigg, a personal injury lawyer whose practice is in Austin, Texas. KSFR's Ellen Dupuy caught up with Grigg after his talk to ask how he got he got involved with the Guantanamo Bar and the legal defense of Gunatanamo detainees.

Grigg's client Mohammad Akhtiar, who was held as an enemy combatant for 3 1/2 years, is back now with his family in Afghanistan.





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