Farina Barth enters her classroom with several years of courtroom experience in what can be the rawest legal setting there is. Barth, a lecturer in the School of Law who teaches first-year Legal ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers plan to make a second push to create a statewide office to help under-resourced public defenders after a previous effort fizzled amid questions over whether the office ...

Plummer is executive director of Public Defender Services of Lane County and a member of Public Defenders of Oregon. She lives in Eugene. In a recent op-ed, Kevin Neely speaks on behalf of a new ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Colorado public defender alleges he was fired in retaliation for publicly raising concerns that his workload was too high for him to ethically represent ...

This is one of two op-eds published today on Oregon’s public defense crisis. To read the opinion authored by two district attorneys, click here. Stacey Lowe, Joel Wirtz and Clint Oborn For The ...

Five attorneys who run local public defender offices in Louisiana will be forced out of their jobs in July, and contracts for the 32 remaining district defenders are “under review” for potential ...

A Louisiana board on Monday narrowly rejected appeals from five top parish public defenders who sought to keep their jobs after the state public defender said he would not renew their contracts. In a ...

Hancock County Budget, Efficiency and Revenue Committee and Hancock County Council members Tammy Settergren and Scott Wooldridge listen in during a recent hearing. GREENFIELD — Hancock County’s chief ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Five attorneys who run local public defender offices in Louisiana will be forced out of their jobs in July, and contracts for the 32 remaining district defenders are “under review” ...

Even though the director of the law school's Public Defender Project is being laid off, the program will continue, according to the law school. John Gross, director of the Public Defender Project will ...