Sentences with phrase «small public defender»

Because of limited budgets and small public defender wages, free lawyers can't spend much time on any one case.

Not exact matches

Saddled with an unresponsive public defender, Dee is offered a Faustian bargain: she can plead guilty, receive a ten - year probation, pay a small fine, and return to her children immediately, but as a convicted felon she'll lose her voting rights and be ineligible for government assistance.

Having lived and worked as a public defender and a prosecutor in the far north of Canada, I can see similarities in remote small communities which experience tragedies of the nature described in this book.

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We are targeting underserved areas of the legal community such as public defenders and small firms dedicated to civil rights and social justice.

First, for newbie lawyers (under 5 years out of school) who don't have the $ 160k large firm option, solo practice either matches or exceeds the salaries that these lawyers would earn at a small firm or working for a prosecutor or public defender.

Prior to joining the firm, Brian was in private practice with a small Phoenix law firm and then received further trial experience working as a public defender.

She spent four years as a Public Defender in Alexandria, Virginia before she went into private practice and co-founded a successful small criminal defense firm in Old Town Alexandria.

Our lawyers have worked in both the state and federal government in agencies such as United States Navy, U.S. Attorney's Office, U.S. Small Business Administration, State of Florida, U.S. District Court, M.D. of FL, Miami - Dade State Attorney's Office, Pasco County, Pinellas County and Manatee County Public Defenders Office, Pinellas County State Attorney's Office.

«They were basically drawn up by a small group of public defenders who said, «Well, probably the caseloads should not be any more than that.»»

The 1963 Legislature established the office of Public Defender in each circuit to defend indigent criminal defendants in all but a small number of minor matters.

She began her legal career as a law clerk for two appellate judges (one state, one federal) and then worked for a small D.C. law firm with a national practice before moving to Spokane, Washington to work as a federal public defender.

And the nineteen participants in Susan Wawrose's focus groups were similarly diverse, comprising lawyers in the Dayton, Ohio area from large, mid-sized, and small firms, in - house counsel, a public defender, and a legal aid attorney.

A true Holistic approach would allow a public defender to open a small business to assist clients with these matters and others like DMV hearings and wills.

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