Public Defender Contract – Child Welfare. Summit County is currently accepting applications for Public Defender duties of indigent child welfare cases in Juvenile Court. Contractor will be required to appear in all courts where Summit County cases are held, whether in Summit County or other conflict juvenile court locations. The contract term will begin immediately and continue for a term of 12 months to 24 months (dependent on anticipated continued grant award from the Utah Indigent Defense Commission). This is a personal services contract and will be awarded to an individual attorney, not to a law firm. The Summit County Public Defender contract is non-assignable. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, a member in good standing of the Utah Bar and competent in the criminal practice of law. Qualified Candidates shall be required to provide competent and timely representation and counsel for each indigent defendant who has been charged by the Summit County Attorney’s Office with violations of Utah law in the Juvenile Court, Silver Summit Division, Third District Court. Candidates must be available and accessible to indigent clients reasonably in advance of any hearing or trial, and must make reasonable efforts to visit indigent minors who are in detention, admitted to a hospital or otherwise confined at the earliest possible moment, to return telephone calls as soon as reasonably possible, and to otherwise be reasonably accessible to all indigent minors. Contract pays $70/hour. Please send letter of interest, resume and references to Summit County, Purchasing Department, P.O. Box 128, Coalville, Utah, 84017, or electronically to [email protected]. Applications must be received by Summit County Purchasing by February 28, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Summit County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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