Philadephia voters approved a measure that gives City Council oversight over large contracts to provide legal representation to defendants and family-court litigants constitutionally entitled to have lawyers, The Legal Intelligencer's P.J. D'Annunzio reports. The ballot question was proposed by Councilman-at-large Dennis O'Brien, the most vociferious opponent of a plan to create a for-profit law firm to handle the work in which the Defender Association of Philadelphia has a conflict. Currently, individual private attorneys take those cases.
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