Neighborhood Defender Service provides the highest quality legal representation through community-based, holistic public defense.

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What We Do Works

Pre-Arrest Services

Criminal Defense

Family Defense

Civil Defense

Immigration Defense

Youth Law

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Global Justice

Policy

Police Accountability/ Community Empowerment

The NDS PACE Program creates long-term, structural change by reckoning with police impunity, reducing overpolicing and building community power and wealth.

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NDS News

Public Defenders Nationwide Announce Plan for Immigration Justice; Provide Ten-Point Plan to Biden Administration
NDS' Chantá Parker on Coronavirus and Incarceration in Michigan
NDS Testifies on Racism in the Family Regulation System
Alice Fontier Tells State Legislature about the Disparate Impact of COVID-19

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The Power of Public Defense

An introduction to Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, (NDS) an innovative, community-based, holistic public defense practice in Northern Manhattan.