The current situation is clearly bad for everyone except, perhaps, lawyers who represent plaintiffs and defendants in malpractice cases.

He also represented the government as well as defendants in criminal cases.

But he was not certain at the time whether "something different" should include representing criminal defendants.

He was often appointed to represent defendants who were mentally ill.

He spent several years with a large law firm that represented corporate defendants.

For the remainder of his career, he always represented defendants.

There is no record that he represented defendants in criminal cases.

Legal Aid now represents poor defendants in about 270,000 of the city's criminal cases each year.

You suggest that those representing poor defendants are paid each month.

The judge argued that a potential conflict of interest exists for a lawyer to represent defendants in both cases.