
What Is a Public Defender? Understanding Their Role in the U.S. Justice System
Get arrested in the United States, and you will hear a familiar line: if you cannot afford an attorney, one
Practical guides on legal technology for prosecutors, public defenders, and government attorneys.

Get arrested in the United States, and you will hear a familiar line: if you cannot afford an attorney, one

Every legal case moves through a fixed set of steps. A matter arrives, gets assigned, passes through review and documentation,

A single legal case can generate hundreds of documents. Motions, contracts, correspondence, evidence files, reports, and court filings pile up

A prosecutor’s office runs on volume. Hundreds of active cases, each with its own evidence, deadlines, witnesses, and filings, all

Government legal offices are not failing for lack of qualified attorneys. They are failing for lack of the right tools.

A single active criminal case can generate gigabytes of digital evidence: body-worn camera footage from responding officers, surveillance video pulled

Government legal offices are not standing still. The tools available to prosecutors, public defenders, city attorneys, and municipal legal teams

Government legal offices carry one of the heaviest administrative workloads within public sector legal operations. Prosecutors juggle hundreds of active