As people who have chosen to lend their hearts and minds to the cause of public defense, we often see ourselves as our clients' most vital and fiercest champion. But when it comes to the daily life of practice, all too often the scope and urgency of our clients' needs can prove overwhelming, especially in an under-resourced and over-extended work environment. We want to do more, but it feels like we are forever doing more with less. This session will focus on how re-aligning our work through a client-led lens can open up new, adaptable, and innovative ways of fighting for our clients' needs both inside and outside the courtroom. We will outline a theory of collaborative defense, illustrating what successful interdisciplinary practice can look like, and showcasing some immediate things offices can do to strengthen their ability to operate as a client-led collaborative defender. We will conclude with a vision of what this new framework can do to expand how public defenders are valued and defined by both their governments and communities. We know we need to be doing more---so how can we start doing it and increase the support we get to grow?

• Participants will learn the model of change that is collaborative defense, an adaptable, flexible framework designed to meet service providers where they are on a spectrum of practice towards expanded service delivery.
• Participants will learn tools that they can utilize today to impact service delivery in their respective organizations.
• Participants will how collaborative practice impacts client outcomes and staff satisfaction.