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Join the Fight

The Delaware County Office of the Public Defender is seeking attorneys to help us provide excellent indigent criminal representation and help reform in our criminal justice system. Start your career on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement in an office under new leadership committed to a client centered practice. Our job, in court, every day is to argue in opposition of the problems that are the focus of the criminal justice reform movement – over incarceration, disparate impact on communities of color, unconstitutional police practices. Join the fight, be part of that change.

We need experienced public defenders and new attorneys.

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Experienced attorney will have the support necessary to fight for their clients in court every day.  New lawyers will learn the skills necessary to be excellent trial lawyers and how to translate their passion for justice into persuasive arguments that can have a real impact on people’s lives and the entire system.

Delaware County, Pennsylvania borders West & SW Philadelphia. Our lawyers and support staff directly serve many of the county’s most vulnerable citizens.

 We are implementing change, not just talking about it – bringing innovative best practices to our office, updating technology, improving client intake and communications,  building new bridges between our office and the communities that we serve, creating social work and investigative units, increasing diversity, developing reentry and diversion programs with other community stakeholders, reimagining juvenile justice, trying to reduce the overall prison population, increasing access to justice, engaging with the broader statewide defender network, and developing excellent trial attorneys. At the same time OPD leadership is engaged with the larger movement for criminal justice reform and zealous indigent defense at the local, state and national level.

Please apply. Our work is not easy, but it matters. Change is happening, come be a part of it.

Employment & Internship Opportunities

Assistant Public Defender – Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Job Opening: Assistant Public Defender Department: Public Defender Shift: Office hours 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday, additional hours as necessary