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Lawyer2Lawyer: The Plight of Public Defenders

By Robert J. Ambrogi

With public defenders' offices in seven states a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/09defender.html?blamp;ex=1226379600amp;en=d53c43c58015c0b6amp;ei=5087%0A"refusing to take on new cases/a or suing to limit their caseloads, this week's legal-affairs podcast a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;new_topic=15"Lawyer2Lawyer/a looks at the a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=326"plight of the public defender/a. Our guests for this program are a href="http://www.pdmiami.com/biography.htm"Bennett H. Brummer/a, public defender in charge of the a href="http://www.pdmiami.com/"Miami-Dade Public Defender Office/a, who has brought a lawsuit seeking to send more cases to outside private lawyers, and David Carroll, director of research for the a href="http://www.nlada.org/"National Legal Aid amp; Defender Association/a.br /br /Listen to or download this week's show from a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/modules.php?name=Newsamp;file=articleamp;sid=326"this page/a. As always, you can keep up to date with all Lawyer2Lawyer programs by subscribing a href="http://www.legaltalknetwork.com/RSS/C2C_feed.xml"via RSS/a or a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=80013534amp;s=143441"using iTunes/a.

Full post as published by Lawsites on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).