CNBC, CNN, Court TV and Fox News, presenting her perspective as a criminal defense attorney on contemporary legal cases being covered on national media news programs. Merritt is also a specialist in the use of the internet as a legal research resource and presents seminars and speeches on its use in investigation, on handwriting analysis, and on other matters pertaining to her legal specialties. Areas of practice Federal and State Drug Offenses Complex Federal Criminal Cases (including multi-defendant drug and fraud conspiracies) Criminal and Civil Forfeitures Pre-Indictment and Grand Jury Representation White Collar Defense (financial crimes, including fraud, money laundering, criminal forfeitures) Electronic Surveillance (cases involving the use of electronic surveillance, including wiretaps) Bar admissions Colorado Bar Association (CBA or cobar) (1974) Colorado Criminal Defense Bar (1974) Supreme Court of Colorado (1974) U.S. District Court, District of Colorado (1974) U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit (1974) U.S. Supreme Court (1981) New York Supreme Court (1990) U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1990) U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (1991) U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1999) Internet journalism Merritt is the creator of CrimeLynx, an online legal resource for legal professionals and the general public, and a blog called TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, which is a three-time winner of a Koufax Award for best single-issue blog in 2002, 2003 and 2004 (in 2004 TalkLeft shared the award with Grits for Breakfast), and a 2006 winner of the Weblog Awards for "The Best of the Top 250 Blogs". TalkLeft became one of the blogs featured in "The Ruckus" section at Newsweek Online in 2007. Merritt covered the United States v. Libby trial on TalkLeft, and with Jane Hamsher and Marcy Wheeler, was among the first bloggers to receive fully accredited media passes to a U.S. federal trial and during which they also appeared on PoliticsTV.com for a round up summarizing each day's trial events. Her blog posts on the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial appeared in FireDogLake and The Huffington Post. On August 2, 2007, Merritt moderated a panel discussion at the 2007 YearlyKos Convention, featuring Christy Hardin Smith of Jane Hamsher's Firedoglake and Marcy Wheeler of The Next Hurrah, relating their experiences "liveblogging" the Libby trial. The panel also included Sheldon L. Snook, Chief of Staff to the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who was "the court official in charge of news