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On a sunny Thursday morning last week, the Boston CAFL Office joined the staff at More Than Words, located in the South End. This outing was part of an ongoing effort to go out into the community as a group Read more
We are excited to announce a pilot project between CAFL and YAD. Our two Fall River offices are combining to form one office serving both CAFL and YAD clients in care and protection, termination of parental rights, CRA, delinquency, and Read more
In 2017 appellate courts issued decisions in 11 cases in which CPCS either submitted or signed on to an amicus brief. We had a remarkably successful year. We prevailed in about half of the cases in which the agency weighed Read more
Students gathered for a BC Law event on careers in social justice were assured time and again by a panel of six practitioners that if there was an issue they were passionate about, there was a law job for them. Read more
NOTICE TO THE BAR: LOOK FOR THE EMAIL INVITING YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR TRIAL COURT JUDGES Judges in the District Court, Juvenile Court, Probate and Family Court, and Housing Court in Middlesex County will be Read more
Say hello to our newest Public Defender Division, Mental Health, and Youth Advocacy Division trial attorneys! These 16 new staff attorneys graduated from new lawyer training last Friday and started in their offices Monday, September 28th. If you want to know more Read more
These 6 new public defenders graduated from new lawyer training last Friday and are starting in their offices today, Monday, March 23. If you want to know more about them, click on the link below. Facebook March 2015
Low pay blamed for high turnover among public defenders State commission says meager salaries for Mass. prosecutors and public defenders waste lots of money Matthew J. Lee/globe staff “Policy makers have the challenging task of making decisions on how to Read more
Correctional health experts from the Health and Criminal Justice Program will serve as consultants to the newly created Specialty Court Center of Excellence, a partnership between UMass Medical School and the Massachusetts Trial Court that will focus on expanding specialty Read more