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Over the course of one year, your CIP conducts court observations of attorneys representing youth in dependency hearings and also interviews the attorneys observed. Your CIP discovers the following:

• Attorneys meet with their clients an average of once every 6 months. 86% of the time, those meetings occur before, during, and after the dependency hearing.
• Youth attend approximately 75% of all hearings. 94% of those youth are age 12 and over.
• Attorneys raise reasonable efforts in 14% of cases.
• In 77% of hearings, the youth’s attorney’s position is aligned with that of the government. That percentage increased to 84% for trial positions.
• Of the 24 trials observed, the youth’s attorney never introduced a separate witness or exhibit. They questioned other parties’ witnesses in 90% of trials.
• The judge ordered supervised visitation between the youth and parent in 94% of the initial hearings observed. The youth’s attorney opposed supervised visitation in 42% of cases. For cases where there was argument about visitation, the youth’s attorney cited the local statute as support for their argument 62% of the time.
• Youths’ attorneys filed motions in 67% of cases.