Public defender jobs are actually very competitive? That blows my mind. Certainly, the ones around where I live aren't. The local district attorney once joked that "there's a reason they're called the 'lawyers of last resort.'"
Where do you live? Public defender jobs in major cities are extremely competitive.
Mid-sized city in the Carolinas. The two public defenders in the small town where I grew up (elsewhere) had awful reputations. They both had degrees from "law schools of last resort," I think, too.
Again, I'm amazed to hear that it's different elsewhere, but you learn something every day, I guess.
Interesting. Maybe I should start looking down there!
By the way, I was just curious, and I didn't mean to sound hostile at all. I'm sorry if it came off that way.
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