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15 Pass It On: Newsl. Gov't & Pub. Sector Law. Div. 1 (2005-2006)

handle is hein.journals/passit15 and id is 1 raw text is: -aIT 005oue1,Number1 I IL aivi GPSLD Government and Public Sector Lawyera Divisin PASS THE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION'S GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SECTOR LAWYERS DIVISION Public Sector Attorneys Shine in Limelight T he Division honored two individuals and one law office when it presented its annual national awards at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The 2005 Dorsey Award, honoring an outstanding public defender or legal aid lawyer, was presented to Bryan D. Shaha, Alternate De- fense Counsel of the State of Colorado. Shaha has spent almost his entire 33- year legal ca- reer in public defense. In 1972, he began Bryan D. Shaha his career as a staff attorney with Colorado Rural Legal Services. He represented indigent clients in landlord-tenant disputes, social services matters and bankruptcies. Shaha joined Col- orado's new State Public Defender System when it was created in 1974, as Deputy State Public Defender. He remained there until 1996, excluding five-years defending the criminally accused in private practice. When the Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel began operation in 1997, Shaha was named Alternate Defense Counsel. Demonstrating enormous dedication and serving as a role- model to lawyers in his community, Shaha ensures that indigent criminal defendants with conflicts of interest with the State Pub- lic Defender system are provided outstand- ing legal representation. In receiving his award, Shaha said he wanted to recognize a group of lawyers who rarely are recognized: assigned counsel- private lawyers who take court appoint- ments, like those in his program. He asked attendees to be sensitive to what it costs to practice law. A demonstration of the prob- lem: He recently paid his mechanic $20 more per hour to service his VW camper than lawyers are paid to represent indigent defendants facing the death penalty. Honoring an outstanding government or public sector law office, the 2005 Hodson Immediate Past Chair Allen E. Giles with Richard A. Cullison, Executive Director of LABG, who accepted the Hodson Award -on behalf of his office. Award was presented to Legal Aid of the Bluegrass. Legal Aid of the Bluegrass (LABG) is a non-profit legal aid society that serves northern, eastern and central Kentucky counties with nearly 140,000 residents living in poverty. For the past seven years, LABG has provided high quality advocacy as its poverty population and coverage area increased from eight to 33 counties, even while its budget relative to its poverty Fall 2005 Volume 15, Number I

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