Rhode Island Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Home Tags Rhode Island Association Of Criminal Defense 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

Focus 02/16/2024

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

Government 02/20/2023

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...

No quick fix for public-defender understaffing

Government 12/15/2017

Don’t blame a lack of interest among law school graduates for the dramatic understaffing of attorneys in the Rhode Island Public Defender’s office. According to...

- Featured Event -

Latest News

American Lung Association: 3 R.I. counties have mostly good air quality

04/24/2024

Brown University admits 5.2% of applicants for 2028 class

04/23/2024

Five Questions With: Victoria Heimer-McGinn

04/23/2024

United Way of R.I. issues RFP for $1.5M equity fund grant...

04/23/2024

DESIGNxRI opens applications for Design Catalyst Program

04/23/2024

SUBSCRIBE TO

PBN's All Access Subscription

PBN subscribers get ahead with unlimited access to PBN news, information, and insights from our editorial team, research and data, webinars and much more.