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Juvenile/Emerging Adult Attorney: Baltimore County (District VIII)
Expires: 2024-07-24
Organization
Maryland Office of the Public Defender
Salary
Dependent on Experience
Job Status
Full Time
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Requirements
Core Competencies and Requirements
- Demonstrated commitment to zealous and comprehensive defense practice, including the ability to represent clients in juvenile, criminal, and administrative hearings.
- Excellent research, writing, and oral advocacy skills.
- Knowledge, training, and experience related to adolescent development, neuroscience, education, mental health treatment, and best practices for juvenile rehabilitation.
- Ability to communicate effectively with people of different backgrounds and lived experiences.
- Proven expertise in communicating with children and adolescents is preferred.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, diverse, team-oriented environment.
- Exceptional organizational, legal, and administrative skills necessary to handle a high caseload.
- Criminal trial and/or experience representing juveniles preferred.
- Jury trial experience is preferred.
- Active membership in good standing in the Maryland Bar or Bar of another State by start date. Attorneys barred in another state must become members of the Maryland Bar within 18 months of the start date. MOPD will consider recent law school graduates who are sitting for the July 2024 bar examination. If selected, offers will be extended contingent on membership to the bar in advance of the start date. Preference in the selection process will be given to candidates that are already a member of the bar.