Stay connected with the latest from NAPD leadership and the broader public defense community. Here you’ll find announcements, event recaps, court summaries, educational resources, and member-submitted commentary and opinion pieces.
NAPD’s First Convening on Public Defense Independence is Coming this Month For the first time in NAPD’s history, we are hosting a convening dedicated entirely
The Public Defender of Marion County (“PDMC”) is a nonprofit public defense office, challenging the legality of Oregon’s case quota system. PDMC and its Executive
By Kawan Clinton, Deputy Attorney in Charge of the Manhattan trial office of The LegalAid Society. Co-chair of the NAPD Workloads Committee. This blog is
By John P. Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Public Defender Project, University of Wisconsin School of Law Two years ago,
By Matt Sanders, Interim Director of the King County Department of Public Defense Washington state is no exception to the nationwide crisis in public defense
Written by: Phyllis H. Subin, Esq., Executive Director, Pennsylvania Coalition for Justice Ms. Subin spent twenty-three years at the Defender Association of Philadelphia where she
Stephen F. Hanlon is a leading national advocate on public defense workloads and Founding Co-chair of NAPD’s Workloads Committee. Read more about him at lawyerhanlon.com.
Last week, we learned about efforts in Aurora, Colorado, and La Paz County, Arizona, to close respected public defender offices in order to cut costs.
Without exception, every single state Public Defender system is facing a shortage of Public Defenders. In many of our episodes, we’ve discussed innovative ways to
The National Association for Public Defense (NAPD) celebrates the release of the National Public Defense Workload Study, a project of the RAND Corporation, the National
Friday, June 30, 2023 For immediate release National public defense org selects new leadership New Mexico attorney to lead board; new faces for leadership slate
We knew a deep analysis of our staffing and workload would show a deficiency, we just didn’t know it would be this much! “The
