Happy Friday Readers & Welcome to a brand new month. We know it may not feel like it, but it goes without saying how we appreciate our...

Chief Justice Beasley and Governor Cooper Announce School Justice Partnership Initiative This past Monday Chief Justice Cheri Beasley,...

Happy Friday!  This week we’ve got quite a few new nuggets to share.  There is a new resource from NJDC worth noting, a webinar offering...

Another Happy Friday to everyone reading this!  This week there is the new tip, one new job opportunity with NCCRED, one new training...

Welcome back!  This week we’ve got two new resources from NJDC in honor of Gault and the usual list of reminders for upcoming event and...

Hello, juvenile justice warriors.  This week we’ve got a new job opportunity and a new webinar added to the list of reminders for...

Welcome back!  We’ve got a few new events, training, and job opportunities ahead this time around.  Please read through and be sure to...

This week we’ve got plenty of important news to share, with updates on Raise the Age, a new podcast, and job and training opportunities....

Good afternoon N.C. Juvenile Defender Community.  It has been a rather eventful week, depending on where you are, and we hope everyone is...

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

We hope everyone had a great Halloween, and this week we’ve got a few new updates to resources, training info, and reminders for you. A...

This week we’ve got a few new resources for you, a panel discussion, and a declaration from the governor’s office we had to include....

This week we want to remind everyone of some upcoming events/deadlines, an update to a Court of Appeals decision and an old-but-new...

This week, OJD has produced its first-ever podcast and we are now on SoundCloud!  In the podcast, Eric Zogry and Kim Howes discuss the...

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

Recent law school graduates (Class of 2017 or 2018) are invited to apply for a two-year juvenile defense fellowship at the National...

We are excited to announce that registration for the 2017 Parent Attorney and Juvenile Defender Conferences is now open and available at...

The North Carolina State Bar Journal has published an article from the Office of the Juvenile Defender in its Summer 2017 issue in honor...

We have recently added the latest published opinion from the N.C. Court of Appeals, In re T.K.  This opinion can be located in our “Case...

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of In re Gault this month, it is a great opportunity to take stock of how far we have come and where...