The Bronx Defenders

The Bronx Defenders
Established1997; 27 years ago (1997)
FoundersRobin Steinberg, David Feige, Daniel Arshack, and five other founders.
TypeNon-profit
Region
The Bronx
ServicesPublic defender
Executive Director
Wesley Caines
Staff250[1] (in 2016)
Websitewww.bronxdefenders.org

The Bronx Defenders is a public defender office located in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York City. At the Bronx Defenders, criminal defense lawyers work together with civil lawyers, family defense lawyers, immigration lawyers, non-attorney advocates, social workers, and investigators to help their clients address the full range of legal and social issues that can result from criminal charges.[2]

  1. ^ "Sonia Sotomayor Goes Back to the Bronx". The New Yorker. February 8, 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Robin Steinberg, "Heeding Gideon's Call in the Twenty-First Century: Holistic Defense and the New Public Defense Paradigm", 70 Washington & Lee Law Review 961-984 (2013).