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Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated Representation

 Revised Mission Statement

The Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated Representation is charged with the duty of studying issues, and making recommendations to the Executive Committee, relevant to methods of providing mandated representation. The Committee shall undertake other activities, such as sponsoring CLE programs and conferences, proposing and commenting on legislation, and proposing and commenting on court rules, that will further the goal of ensuring quality mandated representation.   In addition, the Committee will identify ways that indigent defense provider offices in the state can share resources with each other, particularly on a regional basis.  In furtherance of this objective, the Committee shall generate a report discussing methods of sharing resources between indigent defense providers; addressing any legal impediments thereto; preparing model agreements and programs; and identifying efforts that successfully promote the sharing of resources.

The intention of these efforts is to ensure that the State of New York and local governments charged by the State with providing such representation, do so in a manner which ensures quality representation to clients, while taking into account the financial requirements imposed upon the State of New York and local governments.

Committee Chair, Norman P. Effman

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The 2013 Revised Standards for Providing Mandated Representation can be found here.   If you would like a hard copy of this, please contact probono@nysba.org or (518) 487-5641.

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To download or view the Manual on Revised Standards for Providing Mandated Representation (2005)  Click here.  To obtain a hard copy of the manual, please contact the Department of Pro Bono Affairs at  probono@nysba.org or (518) 487-5641.

Training Materials 

2009 Family Court Training "Mandated Representation in Family Court: Practical Guidance for Parents' Attorneys"

View photographs of the Criminal Law CLE Training Program " Staying Ahead of the Curve: What Criminal Defense Lawyers Need to 
Know"  Click here

Committee Awards Given / Nominations Materials

Denison Ray Criminal Defender Awards

Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Standards of Excellence in Quality of Mandated Representation