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Job Description
Working as a Defense Attorney in Melbourne, VIC
There are 62 Defense Attorney opportunities available in Melbourne, VIC all with unique requirements.
A defense attorney represents individuals charged by the government with committing a crime. Defense attorneys try to ensure that their clients receive fair trials and make use of legal strategies such as the presentation of alibi witnesses, conflict-of-interest issues, bolstering eyewitness testimony, challenging procedural and substantive law violations, and the use of a wide range of motions designed to derail or delay proceedings.