This year’s conference includes a special focus on Racial Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion Programming. Workshops that will address this overarching theme include [RJ] after the session title.
With a patchwork of defense across its 254 counties, Texas is both leading and lagging behind in the fight to provide consistent quality legal representation. This panel pulls together some of the leading lights of Texas indigent defense, including a 183-county capital defender office, one of America's most rural defender offices, a mental-health-focused managed assigned counsel system, and a civil-legal-aid/defender hybrid.
Alyse Ferguson is the Chief Attorney of the Collin County Mental Health Managed Counsel Program (MHMC.) She is responsible for managing the specially trained attorneys, who represent indigent defendants diagnosed with mental illness. She is a graduate of Angelo State University with... Read More →
