CATHLEEN L. BENNETT is the training director at the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in Boston. She joined CPCS in 1987 as a trial attorney in the Public Defender Division, where she represented indigent clients charged with felonies in Massachusetts District and Superior Courts. As training director, Ms. Bennett designs, organizes, and teaches at statewide training programs for full-time public defenders and private attorneys who accept appointments to represent indigent clients in criminal and civil proceedings. She is a graduate of Providence College and Boston University School of Law, where she was a research assistant to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. Ms. Bennett is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College and has taught at programs for the Pennsylvania Association of Public Defenders and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. She is an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School and is a frequent lecturer and faculty member at MCLE and CPCS programs. (November 2011)