Queens Defenders, the World’s Borough’s largest public defender organization, is facing an uncertain future after the city said that it no longer trusted the firm to carry out the promise of a $32 million contract to provide criminal defense to low-income New Yorkers in Queens.
Read MoreParalegals, legal assistants and other support staffers at Queens Defenders have begun to unionize, an effort that began almost immediately after the organization’s longtime, controversial leader was booted from her post earlier this year.
Read MoreSeveral days after the Queens Defenders’ founder and executive director was forced to go on leave by the organization’s board of directors, the public defense group has a new interim leader.
Read More“I had to beg for a trial.”
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