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Margaret Love specializes in executive clemency and restoration of rights, sentencing and corrections policy, and legal and government ethics. She has written and lectured widely on pardon policy and practice, and on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction.

Ms. Love served as U.S. Pardon Attorney between 1990 and 1997, and currently directs the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions.

Ms. Love is the author of "Relief from the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: A State-by-State Resource Guide." It can be ordered from the publisher W.S. Hein here. Updated charts and profiles of each state's law are available on the website of The Sentencing Project,

Ms. Love is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.

For further information, please click here or contact Ms. Love at:

Law Office of Margaret Love
15 Seventh Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Tel: 202-547-0453
Mobile: 202-236-0484
Fax: 202-547-6520

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