SITE DESCRIPTION Our office is responsible for representing all indigent people who have been accused of committing juvenile, traffic, misdemeanor and felony crimes in DeKalb County. Our program is a unique opportunity for law students to integrate what they have learned in law school with the practical application of what it means to be a… Read more »
Category: Criminal Defense
Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Appellate Division
SITE DESCRIPTION The Appellate Division of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council represents indigent defendants on criminal appeals. Externs will partner with experienced appellate attorneys to review trial court records, analyze legal issues, draft pleadings, and attend court proceedings in actual criminal cases from the motion to new trial level through direct appeal. Students will… Read more »
City of Atlanta Office of the Public Defender
SITE DESCRIPTION The City of Atlanta Office of the Public Defender provides constitutionally mandated criminal defense to indigent defendants accused of violating legislatively authorized state level misdemeanors, DUI and other traffic offenses, and Atlanta city ordinance and quality of life crimes, including: disorderly conduct, code enforcement and housing code violations, zoning and environmental offenses, animal… Read more »
DeKalb County Public Defender, Litigation
SITE DESCRIPTION Our office is responsible for representing all indigent people who have been accused of juvenile, misdemeanor, and felony crimes in DeKalb County, Georgia. Our downtown Decatur office begins representing indigent clients at the time of their arrest and continues this representation through final disposition of their case, including any appeals. This is a… Read more »
DeKalb County Public Defender, Appellate
SITE DESCRIPTION Students will summarize and analyze trial transcripts, research appellate issues, and draft legal memoranda and/or briefs in cases pending before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. Interns will also attend oral arguments as their schedule permits. Interns may also be assigned research issues in connection with motions and trials…. Read more »
Georgia Innocence Project
SITE DESCRIPTION The Georgia Innocent Project (GIP) is a non-profit legal organization dedicated to proving the innocence of the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, remedying the causes of wrongful convictions, and helping the exonerated rebuild their lives. The Project reviews post-conviction cases to determine whether there is a legitimate claim of innocence that can be… Read more »
Georgia Justice Project
SITE DESCRIPTION The Georgia Innocence Project (GIP) is a non-profit legal organization dedicated to proving the innocence of the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, remedying the causes of wrongful convictions, and helping the exonerated rebuild their lives. The Project reviews post-conviction cases to determine whether there is a legitimate claim of innocence that can be… Read more »
Southern Center for Human Rights
SITE DESCRIPTION The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR)’s internship program provides students with hands-on training in all areas of capital and civil rights litigation and advocacy. Externs assist staff attorneys in all aspects of our work. Externs should expect to do several of the following tasks while they are at the Center: conduct legal… Read more »
Federal Defender Program
SITE DESCRIPTION The Federal Defender Program provides representation to indigent criminal defendants in Federal Court. The Federal Defender also represents some death-row inmates challenging their convictions and/or sentences in federal habeas corpus litigation. Students working with the Federal Defender program will help in drafting documents, motions and briefs in U.S. District Court, the Court of… Read more »