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Former CW Counsel to lead Access to Justice office at US Department of Justice

June 2022

CW congratulates former CW Counsel Rachel Rossi on her new position at the Department of Justice ("DOJ") as the head of the newly reconstituted Office for Access to Justice, an Obama administration-era program to ensure poor defendants have legal representation in civil and criminal cases. She will be the first former public defender to hold that office, and one of few to hold such a high-ranking position at the DOJ.  

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