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MAKING IT WORK: R.I. Public Defender Collin Geiselman, left, and Matthew Toro, deputy public defender, discuss cases in their office in Providence. Now that higher pay rates have been approved, the public defender’s office is having a much easier time keeping and hiring staff. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. public defenders get helping hand, but still understaffed

The workload has gotten easier for the attorneys in the R.I. ­Office of the Public Defender, but it’s still not case closed when it...
REDUCING THE HOOPS: Robert Brooks, managing partner at Adler, Pollock & Sheehan PC, is one of numerous attorneys who believe Rhode Island’s bar exam rules made it more difficult to attract experienced lawyers to firms here. 
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R.I. eases bar exam rules on out-of-state lawyers

David Wollin has read about several cases in which the Rhode Island Bar Association’s unique rules for out-of-state attorneys have tripped up experienced lawyers...
OFFICE ADVOCATE: R.I. Public Defender Collin Geiselman says he’s asking legislators to add $600,000 more in the R.I. Office of the Public Defender’s fiscal 2025 budget to raise the wages of staff attorneys as a recruitment and retention tool.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Understaffed public defenders struggling to cover cases

R.I. Public Defender ­Collin Geiselman is accustomed to attorneys on his staff leaving to take higher-paying positions at private law firms, but now he’s...
COLLIN GEISELMAN has been nominated by Gov. Daniel J. McKee to become the state's next public defender. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

McKee nominates Geiselman to be next R.I. public defender

PROVIDENCE – Collin Geiselman, who has served as the state’s assistant public defender for two decades and also since 2015 as the state’s chief...
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