http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2004/02/03/too-many-assigned-counsel-just-dont-give-a-damn/ breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:58:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2004/02/03/too-many-assigned-counsel-just-dont-give-a-damn/comment-page-1/#comment-17650 shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress » Blog Archive » Family Law Civil Gideon: are free lawyers always the best approach? Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:29:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/formerlyknownas/2004/02/03/too-many-assigned-counsel-jus#comment-17650 [...]  Before you buy into the proposition that publicly-funded counsel — which will, in most communities, mean Assigned Counsel, who are lawyers in private practice who ask to receive Civil Gideon clients from the courts — please take a look at two postings that I wrote at f/k/a and its predecessor ethicalEsq.  In the post Too many assigned counsel just don’t give a damn (Feb. 3, 2004), for example, I pointed to numerous assigned counsel scandals, and quoted a 2002 New York study, which found: “Notwithstanding the valiant efforts of many lawyers, too many of New York City’s poor are receiving thoroughly inadequate legal representation in such important court proceedings as those relating to child custody and visitation, child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, domestic violence, and criminal prosecution, often with serious adverse consequences.” [...] [...]  Before you buy into the proposition that publicly-funded counsel — which will, in most communities, mean Assigned Counsel, who are lawyers in private practice who ask to receive Civil Gideon clients from the courts — please take a look at two postings that I wrote at f/k/a and its predecessor ethicalEsq.  In the post Too many assigned counsel just don’t give a damn (Feb. 3, 2004), for example, I pointed to numerous assigned counsel scandals, and quoted a 2002 New York study, which found: “Notwithstanding the valiant efforts of many lawyers, too many of New York City’s poor are receiving thoroughly inadequate legal representation in such important court proceedings as those relating to child custody and visitation, child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, domestic violence, and criminal prosecution, often with serious adverse consequences.” [...]

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