2017 Year in Review
For the Orleans Public Defenders Office (OPD), the last 10 years have been every bit as life changing and groundbreaking as finding love, finding purpose, or discovering what is possible. Reforming public defense in New Orleans did not just improve representation for poor people in the criminal justice system in New Orleans.
OPD transformed public defense, liberating our profession, our clients and our community from the notion that public defender means a lawyer who could not find better work, an investigator who refuses to investigate and an advocate who does not care.
