Additional Standards & Releated Publications

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Model Contract for Public Defender Services:
The antidote to low-bid contracting, based on NLADA's Guidelines for Negotiating and Awarding Governmental Contracts for Criminal Defense Services. Includes comprehensive introduction, commentary and annotations (71 pages).

Performance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation (1995):
An indispensable guide to the duties of defenders at every stage of a criminal proceeding, useful as an educational, supervisory, policy or political tool. The 1997 edition includes black letter standards, extensive commentary, citations to related standards, and detailed footnotes. (140 pages).

Indigent Defense Caseloads and Common Sense: An Update (1992):
A comprehensive survey of how caseload standards originated, how they have been institutionalized and altered in statutory provisions and indigent defense contracts, methodologies for measuring caseloads, workloads and case-weighting systems, tips for lobbying a budget, and litigative remedies (180 pages, including appendices).