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Jan
29
2020
Claire Blumenson, former PDS fellow and executive director and co-founder of the School Justice Project, to receive the University of Virginia School of Law's Shaping Justice Rising Star Award.
Jan
09
2020
Avis E. Buchanan will be a co-recipient of the 2020 Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society of D.C.
Dec
17
2019
The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office. That could be disastrous.