An economy gone sour and law firms not hiring summer associates are familiar concerns for law students now, but these issues also affected lawyers who faced a recession when they graduated from law school in the early 1990s.
A former Delaware County Circuit judge and the first public defender in that county died Monday.
The Office of the Public Defender of Indiana is now an American Bar Association Law Office Climate Challenge Partner.
The law is a competitive profession, and the attorney general wants attorneys to channel that competition to fight hunger in Indiana.
The Indiana Federal Community Defenders will host a seminar for attorneys interested in joining the Criminal Justice Act panel of attorneys to represent indigent clients accused of crimes against the United States.
In a disciplinary action released Wednesday by the Indiana Supreme Court, the justices disagreed as to whether two public defenders who worked part time in the same public defender office of Putnam County were "associated in a firm."