This file updated:  Tuesday, July 01, 2008.

Established in 1988, the Georgia Appellate Practice and Educational Resource Center (the Georgia Resource Center, or the Center) is a non-profit law office with a national reputation for innovative, spirited, and unrelenting representation of its death-sentenced clients. The Center is responsible for ensuring that Georgia's indigent death row inmates are adequately represented in state and federal post-conviction proceedings.

Qualifications:

• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Attention to detail;
• Valid driver’s license;
• Ability to travel extensively;
• Capital experience preferred;
• Understanding of mental health and mental retardation issues a plus.

Duties:

• Working closely with attorneys to develop and investigate guilt and penalty phase post-conviction strategy;
• Learning trial record;
• Requesting and obtaining records from various entities as identified by record, client, witnesses, and attorney;
• Digesting voluminous records;
• Preparing social histories, mitigation timelines, and crime chronologies;
• Controlling investigative record through evidentiary hearing;
• Locating and interviewing guilt and penalty phase witnesses;
• Drafting affidavits;
• Working with expert and lay witnesses.

Salary:
Negotiable based upon experience.

Procedure: Send or email resume, cover letter, and writing sample to:

Mary Shellman
Georgia Resource Center
303 Elizabeth Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
(404) 222-9202
e-mail: georgiaresource@mindspring.com

Application deadline: Open until Position Filled

The Georgia Resource Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

(Posted on G.A.C.D.L. website 7/1/08)

Georgia Resource Center
Staff Attorney Position

Established in 1988, the Georgia Appellate Practice and Educational Resource Center (the Georgia Resource Center, or the Center) is a non-profit law office with a national reputation for innovative, spirited, and unrelenting representation of its death-sentenced clients. The Center is responsible for ensuring that Georgia's indigent death row inmates are adequately represented in state and federal post-conviction proceedings.

Qualifications:
Member of the Georgia Bar or willing to seek admission at the earliest opportunity; Excellent writing and research skills; Understanding of mental health and mental retardation issues and protocol; Experience in criminal litigation or capital post-conviction litigation preferred.

Duties:
Undertaking all aspects of habeas corpus litigation including digesting record, identifying habeas issues as well investigative and expert needs, legal research, drafting pleadings, working with investigators and experts, conducting investigation and depositions, and appearing in court; Providing legal and investigative assistance to pro bono attorneys; Preparing expert and lay witnesses.

Salary: Negotiable based upon experience.

Procedure: Send or email resume, cover letter, and writing sample to:

Mary Shellman
Georgia Resource Center
303 Elizabeth Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
(404) 222-9202
e-mail: georgiaresource@mindspring.com

Application deadline: Open until Position Filled

The Georgia Resource Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

(Posted on G.A.C.D.L. website 6/30/08)

Conasauga Judicial Circuit

The Conasauga Judicial Circuit has a position available in August, 2008 for an Assistant Public Defender 1.

Contact:

Mike McCarthy
Circuit Public Defender
(706) 876-1576
mmccarthy@gapublicdefender.org

(Posted on G.A.C.D.L. website 6/30/08)

Cherokee Judicial Circuit

The Office of the Public Defender in the Cherokee Judicial Circuit is looking for an attorney to represent misdemeanor and felony clients in the Superior Courts of Bartow and Gordon County. Our new attorney will, for the most part, be assigned to one judge.

Attorneys in our office are responsible for a client's file from arrest through the conclusion of the case. The office is a great place to learn or improve litigation skills. We have eight other lawyers who are ready to assist new attorneys at any time.  Cartersville is a great place to live but, if you'd rather live in the metro area, the commute is not hard at all. We have several attorneys who live inside the perimeter.

We pride ourselves on having a great work environment. Our CPD, Chris Paul, is a great leader for our team and the best boss in the world. We work hard but we have fun in the process.

Applicants waiting to take the July bar exam are welcomed.

Applications can be sent to kelleydial@gmail.com.

Kelley A. Dial
Assistant Public Defender
Cherokee Judicial Circuit
114 West Cherokee Avenue
Cartersville, GA 30120
678-721-3254

(Posted on G.A.C.D.L. website 5/13/08)

Northern Judicial Circuit

The Office of the Public Defender for the Northern Judicial Circuit has an entry level position open for a public defender.

Contact info below:

Joel Shiver
Office of the Public Defender
Northern Judicial Circuit
Royston, Georgia 30662
Telephone: 706-246-9320
Email:  joel.shiver@yahoo.com

(Posted on G.A.C.D.L. website 5/7/08)