Friday's here! OJD is coming to you live from Kinston, NC, and the Eastern NC Youth Defender Forum. Today we have a new Case Law Corner...

Hey Hey! It's Friday! OJD is attending the Juvenile Defender Conference at the School of Government today, but that doesn't mean you...

To our Defenders who served and are serving, Thank You. Happy Friday Readers! Not to skip over Thanksgiving, but Christmas is in 43...

Happy Friday (Fri-YAY) Readers! Thanks for stopping back and recapping the week with OJD. We hope you had a great holiday weekend,...

David Andrews Any Given Sunday I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t watch a lot of football.  The games are long and there’s that...

Salutations and thank you for joining us again!  This week, in addition to the invaluable Tip of the Week and necessary reminders, we’ve...

Another Friday and only two more left in 2018!  This week we’ve got a new tip for defenders, one new training, and deadline reminders for...

Salutations and happy Friday to all!  This week we’ve got a decent haul of fresh updates and reminders for upcoming deadlines.  Of...

Happy Friday!  This another very light week, but we’ve got some new resources added and the same reminders for training registration...

Late last year, John Rubin of the UNC School of Government and I published the 2017 edition of the North Carolina Juvenile Defender...

This week we would like to bring attention to a few training opportunities and at least one new job opportunity. Good Ol’ Education North...

To reduce the number of notifications hitting the inboxes of our subscribers, our office will be posting these weekly summaries of our...

From the On the Civil Side blog, Professor LaToya Powell has added a new entry titled “Ordering Restitution In A Juvenile Delinquency...

From the “On the Civil Side” blog, please take a moment to review Professor LaToya Powell’s latest post regarding how to determine a...

You meet your new client for the first time for the first detention hearing as the child was detained on a low-level felony or...

Please see the latest update to our “Case Summaries” list on the “Materials for Defenders” page.  The latest entry to the list, located...

Recently the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in In re D.E.P., __ N.C. App. __ (Feb. 7, 2017) that district court judges need not...

Please review this important article from Professor Latoya Powell’s “On the Civil Side” blog about disposition orders, which includes the...

Many of our clients have complex behavioral health needs and we have all experienced the sad reality that there have been absolutely no...

If you represent a juvenile client, it is your duty to advise your client of the right to appeal an adjudication and disposition and of...