Slate: Let Them Work
Emily Galvin, an attorney in our Criminal Defense Practice, published the following piece in Slate about the need to rethink prison employment. Most people are at least intuitively aware of the...
View ArticleAnnouncement of Employment Opportunity: Parent Advocate
The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, holistic legal defense office in the South Bronx – seeks energetic staff with a commitment to social justice to fill openings for Parent Advocates. The...
View ArticleGroundbreaking Federal Lawsuit Challenges Epidemic of Delay in Bronx Criminal...
Broken System Undermines Right to Speedy Trial and Due Process for Thousands of People Charged with Low-Level Offenses, Causing Significant Social and Economic Hardships NEW YORK (May 10, 2016) – A...
View ArticleBxD’s Annie Pineda to speak at 2016 Equal Justice Conference
On May 12, 2016, Annie Pineda, Director of Pro Bono at The Bronx Defenders, will speak at the 2016 Equal Justice Conference in a panel entitled “Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All about You: What...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring a Director of Development Job Description
The Bronx Defenders provides free legal representation and an array of supportive services to clients and their families with criminal, family and civil matters before the Bronx County Court. In 1997,...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Speaks at The Bronx...
On Monday, January 25th, The Bronx Defenders hosted U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor for an evening of conversation at its justice campus in the South Bronx. Local community...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring an Arraignment Clerk
ABOUT THE BRONX DEFENDERS The Bronx Defenders provides free legal representation and an array of supportive services to clients and their families to Bronx residents involved in the criminal justice...
View ArticleBxD’s Runa Rajagopal receives 2016 New York City Bar Association Legal...
The Bronx Defenders is proud to congratulate Runa Rajagopal, director of our Civil Action Practice, for receiving a 2016 New York City Bar Association Legal Services Award! Runa was one of five...
View ArticleLawsuit Challenges NYPD’s Policy of Unlawfully Keeping People’s Cash and...
The Bronx Defenders Seeks Class Cert. in Property Retrieval Suit June 3rd, 2016, New York – The Bronx Defenders filed an amended complaint today in Encarnacion v. City of New York, and will ask a...
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Join us for The Bronx Defenders Annual Community Block Party on Wednesday,...
It’s time for the annual Bronx Defenders Community Block Party! Get ready for a great day filled with free food, live music and entertainment, carnival games, voter registration, community advocacy...
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Join Us for a Conversation on Justice With Dean Strang on Thursday, July 21
The Bronx Defenders invites you to A Conversation on Justice with Dean Strang, the defense attorney featured in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. Proceeds will support Still She Rises,...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring a Staff Attorney – Impact Litigation Practice
The Bronx Defenders seeks an experienced staff attorney for its impact litigation practice. Since opening our doors in 1997, The Bronx Defenders has served over 300,000 clients. The Bronx Defenders has...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring an Adolescent Defense Project Attorney
The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, community-oriented indigent defense office in the South Bronx – seeks an attorney to join our Adolescent Defense Project. BACKGROUND Since opening our...
View ArticlePost-graduate Fellowship Sponsorship
Overview: The Bronx Defenders invites rising third-year law students and recent law school graduates to propose innovative fellowship projects for submission to Equal Justice Works, Skadden, Soros...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring a Staff Attorney – Civil Action Practice
The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, holistic indigent defense office in the South Bronx – seeks energetic people with a commitment to social justice to fill a staff attorney opening in...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is Hiring a Benefits Advisor
The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, community-oriented, holistic indigent defense office in the South Bronx – seeks an energetic person with a commitment to social justice to fill an...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders is hiring a Supervising Attorney, Civil Action Practice
The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, holistic defense office in the Southw Bronx – seeks an energetic Supervising Attorney with a commitment to social justice to fill a supervisor position...
View ArticleThe Bronx Defenders’ Perspective on Body-Worn Cameras
This body camera pilot emerged in part from the class action lawsuits over stop-and-frisk practices in which the court found the NYPD’s practices unconstitutional. The Bronx Defenders is among...
View ArticleNYPD Asks New Yorkers to Weigh in on Body-Worn Camera Policy
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is planning a large body-worn camera (BWC) experiment involving 1,000 cameras at precincts all over the City, and is seeking public input to develop the policies...
View ArticleBronx DA Agrees to Property Seizure Reforms in Response to Bronx Defenders...
Contact: media@bronxdefenders.org July 26, 2016, New York – The City of New York and The Bronx Defenders have requested a six-month stay of the federal class action lawsuit Encarnacion v. City of New...
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