In the wake of the Philadelphia city government’s assumption of responsibility for the payment of private attorneys appointed in criminal and family cases, the Nutter administration is seeking “creative and innovative” proposals on legal representation in cases in which the Defender Association of Philadelphia has a conflict.
Michael Resnick, an attorney who is the director of public safety, said the impetus for the RFP was that the city wants to have a more efficient model than the current one in which thousands of individual appointments are made every budget year.
