Saturday

PD's vs. CJA Lawyers?

It turns out the Public Defenders come out on top

"But the study concludes that lawyers paid by the hour are less qualified and let cases drag on and achieve worse results for their clients, including sentences that average eight months longer." A very interesting read.

2 comments:

Mark Bennett said...

Interesting, indeed. But I wonder why it took Liptak three weeks to discover this story.

Anonymous said...

Obviously, Adam Liptak wasn't thorough in his research.