Sometimes you see it coming… April 24, 2007
Sadly, I won’t be working as a post-bar at a particular next-county-over Public Defender’s office - that office seems to have bigger problems to worry about. So, let’s see - you’re the head of a county’s indigent defense system that is understaffed, plagued with “unbearable caseloads” (ineffective assistance?) and accusations of managerial “incompetence”, causing you to lose veteran DPDs on a regular basis.
The solution: eliminate your post-bar program altogether. After four months of waiting for a definite answer from them, this Public Defender has decided that they’d be better off without summer post-bar interns… apparently nobody from that office read my post about public defender recruitment!
Bummer. Despite my best efforts I wasn’t able to score a clerkship either if that makes you feel any better. My hopes are that when we all get our bar cards (fingers crossed for all of us true believer law students) in November it will be much easier to get some trials at a PDs office somewhere within not superhuman commuting distance of my place of residence. Until then, Nellie Mae and hopefully a few contract gigs with private crim or imm attorneys are going to have to fill the larder.