# What will AGI do for Public Defender Attrition?

## Overview

Public defender offices lose experienced attorneys at unsustainable rates, driven by crushing caseloads and immense administrative burdens. Attorneys manage hundreds of active felony and misdemeanor cases simultaneously, spending the majority of their time on repetitive clerical tasks, discovery parsing, and basic docket management rather than legal strategy. This high turnover forces remaining attorneys to absorb even larger dockets, accelerating a cycle of burnout and departure.

The volume of incoming cases is legally mandated, but the resources allocated to indigent defense remain rigidly capped by state and municipal budgets. Existing legal tech focuses on law firm billing and compliance, while public defender case management systems act as passive repositories that demand manual data entry. Because attorneys cannot control their intake volume and lack tools to automate discovery review or routine motion drafting, they face an impossible arithmetic between available hours and required representation.

When senior defenders leave, institutional knowledge regarding local judges, prosecutorial tendencies, and diversion program leverage vanishes. Replacing them requires shifting remaining senior staff away from active dockets to train new hires, severely depressing the operational capacity of the entire office.

## How AGI delivers it

### Services-as-Software

For Public Defender Attrition, get the professional outcome delivered as software, priced on results, not headcount.

Routes to: services.do, services.studio

### Autonomous Agents as digital employees

For Public Defender Attrition, hire a digital employee that does the job under earned, supervised autonomy.

Routes to: agents.do, workflows.do, management.studio, agents.management

## Related

- [1040 Document Processing](https://agi.do/Problems/1040_Document_Processing)
- [1040 Overflow Preparation](https://agi.do/Problems/1040_Overflow_Preparation)
- [1040 Return Generation](https://agi.do/Problems/1040_Return_Generation)
- [1040 Return Preparation](https://agi.do/Problems/1040_Return_Preparation)
- [1040 Schedule Mapping](https://agi.do/Problems/1040_Schedule_Mapping)
- [1099 Brokerage Fetching](https://agi.do/Problems/1099_Brokerage_Fetching)

## Read more

- [The informational twin on agi.as](https://agi.as/Problems/Public_Defender_Attrition)
- [This page on agi.do](https://agi.do/Problems/Public_Defender_Attrition)