Are public defenders real attorneys?
A Public Defenders are lawyers who practice only criminal law. All have undergraduate degrees and all have graduate degrees in law. With the exception of a few legal interns who are training in county court, all assistant public defenders have passed the rigorous requirements of the Florida Bar Association to practice law in this state. Many of our attorneys have more than 25 years experience practicing law. The 6th Circuit Public Defender Office has the highest number of Florida Bar Criminal Law certified attorneys in the State. It also has the highest number of Florida Supreme Court death qualified attorneys to try death penalty cases in the entire State.
Yes. All of our attorneys are fully certified members of the State Bar of New York. All of them have chosen the cases and people that we represent as their career. Since the great majority of our cases are criminal in nature, our hiring and recruiting process has been aimed at selecting attorneys who are committed to specializing in the area of criminal defense work. Since we also work in other areas of legal representation, our attorneys are also trained in those areas of specialty in which we operate.
