The New Jersey Supreme Court has invited written comments on the report and recommendations of the judiciary working group on attorney pro bono assignments in response to concerns that attorneys in some counties receive frequent unpaid assignments while attorneys in other areas may practice for years without a single assignment.

In a notice to the bar, Glenn A. Grant, administrative director of the courts, stated that the 1992 New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Madden v. Delran reaffirmed the duty of attorneys to represent indigent defendants without pay where there is no legislative provision for the public defender to represent defendants who are entitled to counsel. As a result, New Jersey attorneys are assigned pro bono cases, administrated by the Administrative Office of the Courts, and allocated at the county level.

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