‘For British PD, A Lump Of Coal’

As previously noted on PD Stuff, the United Kingdom is closing three Public Defender Services offices. Skelly at Arbitrary and Capricious has found a posting from one of the public defenders about to be laid off:

In the UK, as the Public Defender Service closes offices and management cheerily proclaims The Way Ahead, our Newcastle colleague at “The Dharma Blues” is more than a bit dharma bummed:

How my employers announced i had lost my job…

In one month, I will be officially unemployed as my office is closing down. My clients abandoned to the local sharks…

I have been offered the chance to relocate to the mobile lawyers unit providing cover throughout England and Wales. Alternatively, I can apply for the position of Project Assistant for the LSC in London…

I really won’t mind working in a coffee shop for a bit…

I know that job woes can make you knooled, but in my mental picture of the Mobile Lawyers Unit, the barristers are quite dashing, knights-errant racing from shire to shire, armed with nothing but their wits and their laptops. Best wishes.