Public Defenders

Court backlogs persist in this state because of shortage of attorneys; ‘the wheels of justice depend on lawyers’

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Home Daily News Court backlogs persist in this state because… Judiciary Court backlogs persist in this state because of shortage of attorneys; ‘the wheels of justice depend on lawyers’ By Debra Cassens Weiss March 10, 2023, 1:50 pm CST Image from Shutterstock. Georgia courts are having trouble addressing case backlogs because the state has a … Read more

Weekly Briefs: SCOTUS nixes immigration arguments; decapitation defendant attacks her lawyer

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Home Daily News Weekly Briefs: SCOTUS nixes immigration arguments;… News Roundup Weekly Briefs: SCOTUS nixes immigration arguments; decapitation defendant attacks her lawyer By Debra Cassens Weiss February 17, 2023, 3:45 pm CST Image from Shutterstock. SCOTUS drops arguments in immigration case The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday removed a case from its argument calendar in … Read more

Citing lack of lawyers, public defenders in this state ask to let law grads work before bar admission

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Home Daily News Citing lack of lawyers, public defenders… Legal Education Citing lack of lawyers, public defenders in this state ask to let law grads work before bar admission By Stephanie Francis Ward February 13, 2023, 9:40 am CST Image from Shutterstock. A Florida proposal to allow court appearances for law school graduates, up to … Read more

Hulu’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ and keeping an appropriate distance from your clients

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Ah, yet another streaming legal drama to review and analyze. Thank you, television gods, for continuing to bestow a fruitful bounty of hourlong installments to fill my column’s coffers. Reasonable Doubt, a relatively new series that first aired in the fall on Hulu, is the next offering with high hopes of capitalizing on the public’s … Read more