3L Public Defender Applications Forum

[Anonymous User]

Have there been any more rejections from LAS or BxD? Has anyone heard from NDS?

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know about Cook County PD? I imagine they have a big office, but I don't hear anything about them, and my school's career office has no idea/connections about the office

[Anonymous User]

NJ has already interviewed some people and made offers to at least one I know.

Yes NJ has made a few offers already.

Did the people have clerkship experience? At OCI at my school everyone was essentially told "Unless you're top 5% or unless you clerk post-grad, we're not looking"... Which begged the question from everyone "why the hell did they come to an OCI?"

[Anonymous User]

NJ has already interviewed some people and made offers to at least one I know.

Yes NJ has made a few offers already.

Did the people have clerkship experience? At OCI at my school everyone was essentially told "Unless you're top 5% or unless you clerk post-grad, we're not looking"... Which begged the question from everyone "why the hell did they come to an OCI?"

I'm a former NJOPD intern/currently clerking in the state. They do OCI as a way of getting their name out to prospective hires and so they can recruit interns.

At our orientation in Trenton, we were told with a heavy wink and nod that the 2L internship is critically important if we were going to be applying for a job with them post-bar. I talked to the deputy of the county I worked in, and they basically told me that the NJOPD pretty much only hires three types of folks: (1) former NJOPD interns who go on to clerk in the state and do a good interview, (2) T14ers with top stats, and (3) lateral hires with special trial or appellate skills.

From what I understand, they've already made offers to the T14-types for this round of hiring, and they're about to start interviewing former interns/current clerks in January/February.

[Anonymous User]

I'm a former NJOPD intern/currently clerking in the state. They do OCI as a way of getting their name out to prospective hires and so they can recruit interns.

At our orientation in Trenton, we were told with a heavy wink and nod that the 2L internship is critically important if we were going to be applying for a job with them post-bar. I talked to the deputy of the county I worked in, and they basically told me that the NJOPD pretty much only hires three types of folks: (1) former NJOPD interns who go on to clerk in the state and do a good interview, (2) T14ers with top stats, and (3) lateral hires with special trial or appellate skills.

From what I understand, they've already made offers to the T14-types for this round of hiring, and they're about to start interviewing former interns/current clerks in January/February.

Thanks so much for that great (horrible (in the news sense)) answer!

[Anonymous User]

Has NHPD made any offers yet?

[ajrm116]

Does anyone know about Cook County PD? I imagine they have a big office, but I don't hear anything about them, and my school's career office has no idea/connections about the office

Why in the world would you want to be a government employee in Illinois?

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know about Cook County PD? I imagine they have a big office, but I don't hear anything about them, and my school's career office has no idea/connections about the office

I know a lot of good attorneys that work there. They are a good office, but they don't interview or hire pre-bar, so they lose out on a lot of good applicants.

[Anonymous User]

Can anyone who has worked at the Colorado State Public Defender give me your thoughts on it? I'd love to know more about office culture, what the caseloads look like, how long people tend to stay there, etc. I have an offer and I'm still really unsure about what to do. Any advice/information is appreciated!

[eav1277]

To the last anon. If interested in learning more about Colorado PD. Please feel free to pm.

[Anonymous User]

I hope Miami doesn't make all their offers because I have a panel coming up in Feb.

Any tips for MD panel?

[Anonymous User]

I don't think anyone's said anything about this yet but how does BxD send out rejections? Snail mail? Email? Call?

[Anonymous User]

I don't think anyone's said anything about this yet but how does BxD send out rejections? Snail mail? Email? Call?

From what I heard the first ones were through email.

[Anonymous User]

any movement from offices this week?

[beysho]

Has anyone heard anything from the Maryland OPD to date?

[mazatec]

Any movement from Philly?

[Anonymous User]

Any movement from Philly?

They're just now finishing their interviews/hiring for their Spring class, the first they've done in a long time. Word I have from someone who works there is that they're supposed to start Fall class interview requests next week.

I got a call in late November/early December asking which class I had applied for, so they were at least sorting applications back then.

[Anonymous User]

Any movement from Philly?

They're just now finishing their interviews/hiring for their Spring class, the first they've done in a long time. Word I have from someone who works there is that they're supposed to start Fall class interview requests next week.

I got a call in late November/early December asking which class I had applied for, so they were at least sorting applications back then.

Thank you for the info

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone heard anything from the Maryland OPD to date?

panel interviews happened this week.

[Anonymous User]

anyone hear from new orleans?

[Anonymous User]

anyone hear from new orleans?

They called me for a final interview about a month ago.

[Anonymous User]

anyone hear from new orleans?

They called me for a final interview about a month ago.

[beysho]

Has anyone heard anything from the Maryland OPD to date?

panel interviews happened this week.

Thanks. Do you know what their typical process is like?

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone heard anything from the Maryland OPD to date?

panel interviews happened this week.

Thanks. Do you know what their typical process is like?

They have screener interviews and then final round (panel) interviews with the leadership from the counties that they are considering you for. The interview is basically why PD... relevant experience... then different practical questions like how you relate to clients, how you prepare, etc. etc. I know some offers for the spring class are out already.

[Anonymous User]

Is anyone applying to appellate positions? If so, have you heard anything from OAD?