An independent public defender office is the best place to start.
Not exact matches
Onondaga County, for example, hires
independent lawyers through an assigned counsel system, while other counties staff a
public defender's office.
Author: The Wisconsin State
Public Defender is an
independent agency charged by Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 977 with providing legal representation to indigent clients in criminal and certain civil cases.
Locates the
Public Defender within the courts but gives it
independent status.
68 organizations from around the world working to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women, including
independent nonprofits as well as organizations affiliated with law schools or other educational institutions, units of
public defender offices, and pro bono sections of law firms.
«With no
independent barristers willing to prepare such cases after a 30 % fee cut, the Ministry is now scrambling to try and solve the problem by employing barristers to the
Public Defender Service, leading to the additional costs of employment such as holiday pay, pension contributions and national insurance etc..