Rachel N Wilford | Conflict Public Defender

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About Rachel

The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is an independent agency within the executive branch of the state government of Georgia. Our mission is to ensure, independently of political considerations or private interests, that each client whose cause has been entrusted to a circuit public defender receives zealous, adequate, effective, timely, and ethical legal representation, consistent with the guarantees of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, the Constitution of the United States and the mandates of the Georgia Indigent Defense Act of 2003; to provide all such legal services in a cost efficient manner; and to conduct that representation in such a way that the criminal justice system operates effectively to achieve justice.

Free Consultation: 404-613-4972

Experience

Conflict Attorney

GPDSC

2013 - Present

Atlanta, GA

Associate

The Carson Firm, LLC

2012 - 2013

Atlanta, GA

Associate Intake Attorney

Bird Law Group, P.C.

2012

Atlanta, GA

Staff Attorney

Office of the Public Defender - Atlanta Judicial Circuit

2008-2010

Project Attorney

KING & SPALDING

2008

Law Clerk/Associate

The Steel Law Firm, P.C.

2007-2008

Intern-Trial Division

Dekalb County District Attorney's Office

2006

Intern-Appellate Division

Cobb County District Attorney's Office

2006

Admission

Verified GA

2007

Education

Widener University School of Law

LL.M.

2012

Georgia State University

M.A.

2010

Baylor University

B.B.A.

2004

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • State Bar of Georgia
Honors / Awards
  • Order of Emory Advocates
  • Emory University School of Law
  • 2007
  • Black Law Student Association Scholarship
  • Emory University BLSA
  • 2005

Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Highlights

Criminal, Felony, Misdemeanor

Firm Size: 1
Firm Locations: 1
Languages: English