ZLS.app is a sponsor and presenter at the 2026 NAPD Tech Expo, the National Association for Public Defense’s two-day virtual conference on technology in public defense, held September 17 and 18, 2026. Our session runs Friday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, and it is a live demonstration: one felony case, from day-one assignment through
AI for public defenders is arriving one tool at a time, and that pattern carries a cost most offices never put in the budget. NACDL’s new white paper, Parity in Practice: The Defender’s Duty to Ethically Use AI, argues that defenders have an ethical obligation to close the technology gap with prosecutors. It also, without
Mississippi’s new Day One public defender pilot is showing early proof of concept: when lawyers get into rural jails on day one, people go home sooner and cases move faster. Defend the Fifth is doing that work with ZLS.app as their case management backbone from the moment they opened their doors. “This pilot is working
ZLS.app is excited to join Hunter Parnell on the Public Defenseless podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on how public defense leaders can better use data to tell their own stories and drive change in their jurisdictions. The episode focuses on a question that comes up repeatedly in our work with defender offices: “What story could
