Teams at Committee for Public Counsel Services

Part-time receptionist responsible for greeting and directing visitors, notifying staff of arrivals, answering and routing calls, maintaining professional boundaries, organizing the reception and mail areas, receiving and distributing mail and deliveries, posting outgoing mail, monitoring supplies, and performing scanning, electronic filing, photocopying, and other clerical duties.

Represents indigent clients in involuntary civil commitment, guardianship, competency, and involuntary treatment proceedings. Responsibilities include client interviews at psychiatric facilities, pretrial investigation and discovery, review of medical and psychiatric records, expert collaboration, legal and medical research, motion practice, hearings, trials, appeals, and post-commitment relief. The attorney works with social services advocates to identify alternatives to hospitalization and serves clients across courts and facilities in Massachusetts.

Law student interns support public defenders representing indigent clients in criminal cases. Responsibilities include client interviews, arraignment and bail advocacy, legal research, drafting pretrial motions and legal memoranda, pretrial investigations, witness interviews, crime-scene visits, and pretrial motion arguments. Interns work under attorney supervision and maintain client confidentiality.