This article presents a qualitative research approach to exploring attorney-client communication in an urban public defense system. The study drew upon procedural justice theory [PJT], which emphasizes relationships between satisfaction with system procedures and compliance with system demands. Interpretive analysis of interview data from 22 public defense clients revealed four major themes. PJT accounted well for three themes of communication time, type, and content, highlighting relationships between prompt, iterative, complete communication and client satisfaction. The fourth theme involved clients exercising agency, often due to dissatisfaction with attorney communication. This theme was better accommodated by legal consciousness t...
This Article examines the impact of the trial court upon the quality of legal assistance provided th...
Transcript of a presentation given during the 2017 Symposium by Dawn Deaner the Metropolitan Public ...
Following a brief history of prior versions of the relevant Standards in Part I, Part II describes t...
Empirical research on public defense is a new and rapidly growing field in which the quality of atto...
The right to an attorney is a one to which all U.S. citizens are entitled, in conjunction with the c...
This Article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for improving public defense a...
This Article argues that the Rules of Professional Conduct still need significant improvement and sh...
This study uses an ethnography of a large public defender office in the U.S. to argue that the rise ...
A growing body of scholarship argues that representing clients in an effective and quality manner sh...
While the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees indigent defendant’s legal representat...
Despite substantial research focusing on victims of crime and their interactions with various crimin...
An attorney\u27s communication style - not just what he or she says, but how he or she says it - can...
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.Microfiche co...
In courtroom communication, lawyers play a key role. During presentations of opening statements and ...
When we co-founded the Indigent Defense Research Association (IDRA) in 2015, we wanted to create a m...
This Article examines the impact of the trial court upon the quality of legal assistance provided th...
Transcript of a presentation given during the 2017 Symposium by Dawn Deaner the Metropolitan Public ...
Following a brief history of prior versions of the relevant Standards in Part I, Part II describes t...
Empirical research on public defense is a new and rapidly growing field in which the quality of atto...
The right to an attorney is a one to which all U.S. citizens are entitled, in conjunction with the c...
This Article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for improving public defense a...
This Article argues that the Rules of Professional Conduct still need significant improvement and sh...
This study uses an ethnography of a large public defender office in the U.S. to argue that the rise ...
A growing body of scholarship argues that representing clients in an effective and quality manner sh...
While the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees indigent defendant’s legal representat...
Despite substantial research focusing on victims of crime and their interactions with various crimin...
An attorney\u27s communication style - not just what he or she says, but how he or she says it - can...
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.Microfiche co...
In courtroom communication, lawyers play a key role. During presentations of opening statements and ...
When we co-founded the Indigent Defense Research Association (IDRA) in 2015, we wanted to create a m...
This Article examines the impact of the trial court upon the quality of legal assistance provided th...
Transcript of a presentation given during the 2017 Symposium by Dawn Deaner the Metropolitan Public ...
Following a brief history of prior versions of the relevant Standards in Part I, Part II describes t...