Community & Business Development Specialist

• Reviews, studies and researches laws, court decisions, documents, opinions, briefs, and related legal authorities.• Prepares legal memoranda, statement of issues involved and proposed orders, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations to the judge.• Attends court sessions to hear oral arguments.• Prepares and summarizes case files in advance of hearings and monitors cases under advisement.• Prepares jury instructions and verdict forms.• Responds to phone calls… Show more • Reviews, studies and researches laws, court decisions, documents, opinions, briefs, and related legal authorities.• Prepares legal memoranda, statement of issues involved and proposed orders, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations to the judge.• Attends court sessions to hear oral arguments.• Prepares and summarizes case files in advance of hearings and monitors cases under advisement.• Prepares jury instructions and verdict forms.• Responds to phone calls and written inquiries from public and attorneys. Show less

• Researched and draft evidentiary motions, suppression motions• Client meetings • Negotiate Plea offers and bond modifications• Legal Research• Assist indigent clients under Office’s Public Defender Contract

• Appeared in court for initial hearings and bond arguments, motions to show cause, dispositional hearings, status hearings• Assisted with and observed jury trials• Researched and drafted evidentiary motions, suppression motions• Represented approximately twenty clients as primary, working under supervision