Organization Profile: Pursuant to Article 18B of the County Law, the Assigned Counsel Plan (ACP), in consultation with the Presiding Justices of the Appellate Divisions in the First and Second Departments has been providing quality legal services to indigent persons since 1966. All services provided by the Office of the Assigned Counsel Plan are funded by the City of New York through the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. The ACP provides compensation to private attorneys for representing indigent clients charged with criminal offenses. Attorneys are assigned matters by the Court and the Administrator’s Office when a conflict exists prohibiting the institutional providers from providing representation.
The Supervisory Attorney for Training, Assigned Counsel Plan will create, implement and manage a training, mentoring and continuing legal education (CLE) program for 18-B Panel attorneys on criminal law, evidence, criminal procedure, immigration and a variety of other areas that impact the representation of indigent persons charged with crimes.
Under the direction of the Assigned Counsel Plan Administrators and working in partnership with the 1st and 2nd Appellate Divisions of New York State and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the Training Director will develop and implement innovative solutions to establish and maintain a comprehensive training program.
The desired candidate will:
- Initiate outreach to 18-B Panel attorneys, the courts, bar associations and other organizations to assess training needs and to ensure that the Assigned Counsel Plan is conducting training and continuing legal education designed to prepare 18-B panel attorneys for representing indigent persons charged with crimes.
- Identify and engage presenters who have expertise in a variety of categories and working with those presenters to make classes useful and educational for 18-B panel attorneys
- Develop training and CLE classes in a variety of formats, such as live training and webinars.
- Arrange for the recording of live programs and webinars and posting previously recorded sessions on-line.
- Create new and update existing materials for trainings.
- Implement pre and post-training assessments and use data from those assessments to guide future programming.
- Track registration and attendance by 18-B Panel attorneys at training and CLE programs and coordinate with the Office of Continuing Legal Education to meet state requirements.
- Inform 18-B Panel attorneys of training and CLE opportunities offered by bar associations, law schools, the courts and defender advocacy groups.
The types of trainings to be managed and directed by this position include, but are not limited to:
- Instruction in substantive areas of the law
- Skills Training
- Updates on new legislation
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Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.
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