SADO is hiring! Apply now!
Multiple positions open; application due dates vary by position
SADO is the oldest and only state-wide public defender office in Michigan. Our team of attorneys, mitigation and reentry specialists, investigators, paralegals, IT, programmers, administrators, and core staff, work together to fulfill our mission of fighting injustice in the criminal and youth legal systems through access, advocacy, compassion, and education.
We are currently hiring for the below positions; dates refer to the deadline for applications for that position:
- Training Director (open until filled).
- Assistant Defender -- Direct Appeals Unit (open until filled).
- Finance Assistant (12/19/25).
Current Articles
- Registration is open for the 2026 Appellate Writing Workshop
- Sentencing guidelines objections at probation violation sentencings
- Project Reentry: The role of technical literacy in Reentry
- Ask an appellate attorney: Whose defense is it anyways?
- Project Reentry's End of Summer Gathering
- SADO is hiring Assistant Defenders
- SADO's Michael Mittlestat works with UM clinical law students to secure new trial
- Crime class mysteries: Mismatched sentencing guidelines crime classifications
- More than a file: The power of the attorney-client relationship
- Safe & Just Michigan
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