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I want to know whose tipping point for getting the vaccine was the _second_ Krispy Kreme donut.
2 years. Over 1500 cases. Forever grateful for each of my clients in Maryland. Thank you for keeping me going through the toughest of days. Now on to King County Department of Public Defense and my forever home in Seattle.
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I don’t have advice for 1Ls. All I offer is this: I was a first generation law student. On my first day of law school, I’d never read a case, never talked to a lawyer in real life, and could not have distinguished a tort from a tart. It was bewildering at first and then it was ok
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New rule: you can't respond to an email with "sorry for the delay" for at least 24 hours.
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NEWS: The Colorado Federal Public Defender is hiring an Appellate Attorney to join its Appellate Section and handle criminal appeals from across the Tenth Circuit!
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Absolutely this. District court case loads are unsustainable in Maryland. 26-32 cases set for trial in a single day with attorneys in court 2 or 3 times a week. We are struggling and our clients are the ones suffering the most.
I’ve never been more concerned about the 6th amendment right to counsel. If courts don’t open, if caseloads aren’t reduced, if public defender offices aren’t properly funded - CLIENTS WILL SUFFER & THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT TO DO THE WORK! #FundPublicDefense #EndMassIncarceration
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When the “be nice to fancy attorneys representing horrible causes” conversation comes up, someone always pops up to say, “If we don’t, people might start being mean to like…. public defenders!!” And I have bad news for y’all about how most of the world already feels about PDs.
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Breaking: The Biden admin will extend the freeze on federal student loans until Jan. 31, 2022, per official & sources familiar. The relief had been set to expire at the end of Sept.
Official describes this as a “final” extension.
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Imagine what public defenders could do if their caseloads were cut in half. If they were provided with the necessary amount of investigators, paralegals, social workers, support staff & money for expert witnesses. Just imagine... #FundPublicDefense #EndMassIncarceration
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Is it just me or does every public defender out there struggle with “I can’t do this anymore” after sobbing over a client and the pain of their life, magnified by the system…only to wake up and keep doing this?
And yes I have read Trauma Stewardship lol.
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Committed public interest lawyers work themselves nearly to death for their clients. The implication that it is some kind of cushy job, and therefore that the often execrable pay is justified, is absurd. – at San Francisco, CA
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!!! People working towards #PSLF if you have ever had FEDLOAN as your servicer, go download your entire payment history NOW. /1
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