The UC Santa Cruz Legal Studies Program, in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of the Public Defender, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the National ...

says Lori James, executive director of the National Association for Public Defense (NAPD). The hours simply aren’t there. An attorney with a caseload set under the 1973 standards — who worked ...

She was elected at the association’s annual meeting on Aug. 13. Newberger started as an assistant federal public defender in Baltimore in 2005 and worked her way up to first assistant.

A new Office of the Public Defender is aiming to expand the criminal defense system for indigent adults in Kent County. This decision comes after a report by the National Association for Public ...

“As we celebrate what is now known as National Public Defense Day, we rallied alongside ... Earlier this month, over 1,000 members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys staged a protest ...

The joint statement from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA), the American Council of Chief Defenders and the Black Public Defender Association urges a reduction in public ...

NEW YORK — A first of its kind comprehensive national study into how many cases public defense attorneys can reasonably handle provides new evidence that many public defense systems around the country ...

In the meantime, a year ago, the American Bar Association, the National Center for State Courts and the RAND Justice Policy Program released the National Public Defense Workload Study that ...