Legal Opinion
New York County Lawyers' Ass'n v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 9, 2002PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Saxe, J.P.
This action was commenced in response to the widely recognized crisis in New York’s assigned counsel system, by which, as a report issued by the Chief Administrative Judge of the New York State Courts has recognized, “woefully inadequate” rates of compensation for assigned counsel have resulted in a drastic drop in the number of attorneys willing to serve in that capacity (see, Hon. Jonathan Lippman and Hon. Juanita Bing Newton, Assigned Counsel Compensation in New York: A Growing Crisis [Jan. 2000] [available at…
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