PAUL R. RUDOF is the public defender cocounsel at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, assisting public defenders throughout the state in litigating complex or novel legal issues and trying cases. Previously he worked as a staff attorney in the CPCS Criminal Defense Training Unit and as a staff attorney in the Essex County office of the CPCS Public Defender Trial Unit. Mr. Rudof has tried felony cases in Superior and District Courts throughout the Commonwealth and has argued before the Supreme Judicial Court. He is a faculty member at the National Criminal Defense College (NCDC) in Macon, Georgia, where he teaches annually at the NCDC Trial Practice Institute. A 1999 graduate of the University of Utah College of Law, Mr. Rudof spent a year as a law clerk for the Hon. Michael Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit before joining CPCS. He earned his B.A. from Brown University in 1993. He then worked as a middle school social studies and English teacher in the Washington, D.C., public school system and as a tenant organizer for low-income housing residents in Tucson, Arizona, before heading to law school. (September 2010)