National Legal Aid and Defender Association
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Cait Clarke Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-056
Scope and Contents
Cait Clarke, the Assistant Director at the Office of Defender Services, Administrative Office of the United States Courts and former director of Strategic Initiatives at the NLADA, has been a long-time legal educator and advocate, and has been teaching, training, and consulting on the law, policy reform and leadership skills. She was the founding Director of National Defender Leadership Institute. Her papers include reports, documentation, and training materials for defenders.
Dates:
1998 - 2013
Found in:
National Equal Justice Library
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Cait Clarke Papers
General Charles L. Decker Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-019
Scope Note
This collection contains documentation of the involvement of General Charles L. Decker with the National Defender Project. The collection includes original documentation regarding grant inquiries, proposals, reports, presentations, congressional testimony, personal correspondence, research materials, brochures and seminar materials, budgetary documentation, journal and newspaper articles, legislative and regulatory materials, and other documentation. Specific topics...
Dates:
1961 - 1976
Found in:
Manuscripts
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General Charles L. Decker Collection
Mary M. Broderick Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-055
Scope and Contents
Mary Broderick served as the Director of the Defender Division at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) in Washington, from 1985-1994. Her papers represent a concerted effort on the part of Broderick and the Defender Division to improve the administration and capacities of public defender offices throughout the U.S. The Papers include benchmarks for the evaluation of defender services by local authorities and public defenders. The papers also enumerate basic steps to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-1994; 1977-2001
National Legal Aid and Defender Association Records
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-023
Scope and Contents
Scope and content note: The NLADA collection came to the NEJL in several accessions and covers the time period from about 1975 until 2005. Most of the processed materials document the work of the Legal Services Corporation, and cooperation between the LSC and the NLADA, as well as the development of regional legal services organizations arranged by state. Additional accessions, which cover the organizational history of the NLADA, and the work of the civil and defender divisions, are...
Dates:
1975 - 2000
Richard Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEJL-003
Scope and Contents
The collection includes predominantly materials documenting Richard Wilson's work as the director of the Defender Division at the NLADA from 1980-1985, including a variety of reports evaluating local, regional and federal defender systems in the United States. It also includes conference papers, testomonies, and documentation related to two court cases related to the right to effective counsel in criminal proceedings: United States v. Harrison P. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), and James...
Dates:
1973 - 1992
Found in:
National Equal Justice Library
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Richard Wilson Papers