New York City last week issued a request for bids from institutional providers to handle conflict cases, a move that could sharply limit the practice of 18-B lawyers, who now take most of the cases of indigent criminal defendants who cannot be represented by organizations with a city contract.
Word of the proposal caused “panic” to spread “through the ranks of 18-B lawyers,” said Stephen J. Singer, a past president of the Queens County Bar Association.
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