When you’re a Client Advocate you never know what each day will hold. Explore a day in the life of three second-year Advocates in Los Angeles County, as they do everything from preparing for court and collaborating with attorneys, to assisting with expungements.

PFJ awarded its inaugural Champion Award to Andrew Strong, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for the Public Safety Group in San Diego County, for his innovation and support of public defenders.

PFJ Advocates, partners and clients were featured in this story published by Stateline.

Got questions about PFJ? We’ve got answers.

Partners for Justice awarded its 2025 Legacy Award to the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office.

Sarah Mares, a PFJ Client Advocate with the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, wrote an op-ed for Teen Vogue about her experiences as an Advocate.

The Harris County Public Defender's Office was given the 2024 PFJ Legacy Award for its commitment and innovation in Collaborative Defense.

PFJ and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender Announce Partnership

Client Advocates Latoya White and Ryan Cieslukowski helped organize an extremely successful community resource fair with the Food Bank of Delaware and the Delaware Department of Justice. Here's what it took.

PFJ Client Advocates with the Linn County Advocate were featured on KCRG's six o'clock news

As Santa Cruz transforms how it provides public defense, PFJ client advocates play a key role in the movement.

The amazing client advocate team in Delaware County, Pennsylvania was featured in March by WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR station.

Our staggering new data on mitigation

Across the country, PFJ Advocates are earning attorney accolades

Partners for Justice is expanding to Philly, bringing ‘bureaucracy doulas’ to the court system

Meet our client Jasmin

In a perspective with Law360, co-founder Emily Galvin-Almanza makes the case for defenders as a vital anti-recidivism resource

Advocates in Delco Earn Statewide Praise

An analysis of what we get wrong in safety policy

Climate change's first impact will be felt by those incarcerated

Defenders stand between people & the nightmare of wrongful conviction

Feelings about facts are not as good as facts themselves.

WHYY covered PFJ's next lauch

Advocates Carolina Arango and Carly Frieders on why mental health matters

Ivy Harris on KBJ

Orleans Chief Defender Derwyn Bunton

Stop making prosecution a pre-requisite to power

10 Questions with Emily Galvin Almanza

New to the job but already making an impact

Towing fees are intractable--and cementing poverty.

In a season of reflection and renewal, what can the past reveal about how we engage with our present?

PFJ in the Washington Post

The systems we rely on don't work. So Advocates work harder.

"The language of courtroom proceedings also works to otherize and separate these people from their humanity."

"On his own, the client would not have been able to navigate all these challenges successfully."

"The Advocate made a successful case for Alice."

“In short, these advocates have been game changers.”

"With love."

"PFJ Advocate was able to break the cycle of re-arrest."

"Returning to homelessness would be lethal for him."