Sentence examples for defender organization from inspiring English sources

Ms. Glashausser, who is keeping her name, is a staff lawyer for Appellate Advocates, a nonprofit public defender organization in New York.

Ms. Smolar, trial chief with the Bronx Defenders, a public defender organization, said she obtained the video and offered it, along with Mr. Solivan's medical records, to the grand jury that considered the charges against him.

According to Scott Henchinger, director of policy at Brooklyn Defender Services, the public defender organization representing Headley, the mother had been waiting at the office for four hours without a place to sit.

The "Jobs" area of the NLADA web site also includes internship and permanent positions in civil legal services, defender organizations, pro bono and public interest organizations, public interest law firms and academia.

"The problem of grossly underfunded public defender organizations with grossly excessive caseloads is a systemic, endemic problem going back 50 years," said Stephen F. Hanlon, general counsel for the National Association for Public Defense, who is overseeing the current studies.

His extensive pro bono practice has served a wide variety of civil rights, legal aid and public defender organizations and Prof. Amsterdam has litigated on cases ranging from death penalty defense to claims of access to the courts of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Also, I should mention that there's an effort afoot in nearly every state to reduce funding to public defender organizations and raise public defender caseloads substantially.

A coalition of defender organizations are urging a Maryland appeals court not to delay the retrial of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular "Serial" podcast.

Yet there are no meaningful systems to track ineffective assistance, much less do anything about the bad lawyers, and many state public defender organizations are woefully underfunded.

The oldest of these, the Bronx Freedom Fund, was established in 2007 in association with the Bronx Defenders, a public-defender organization.

Robin G. Steinberg, executive director of the Bronx Defenders, a public defenders' organization in the Bronx (well, they would be), says of interpreters: "They become the only bridge between the attorney and the client.