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CJA Panel's Pilot Mentoring Program in Conjunction with PRACDL

By Tom Lincoln

We posted here on PRACDL's proposal to the US District Court for improvement of the Court's Mentoring Program for new CJA Panel Members. The Court had approved PRACDL's Mentoring Program proposal, with a few minor changes, as a pilot program, see Memorandum, but needed to amend the CJA Plan to implement it. The Circuit Executive's Office has now given the green light to the amendment and, at a CJA Committee meeting held yesterday, Hon. Aida M. Delgado-Colón announced the Court's selection as Mentors (from a list of PRACDL volunteers submitted earlier). These are the following: Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco Rachel Brill Linda Backiel Tom Lincoln Mariángela Tirado-Vales Juan R. Acevedo-Cruz Epifanio Morales Esther Castro-Schmidt The attorneys required to participate in the mentoring program have to participate in a number of  "events" --most mandatory, and some optional...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on October 02, 2007 (boomark / email).