Local brief
Nye County seeks public defender attorneys; letters due 5 p.m. Oct. 8
Nye County is looking for attorneys or law firms to serve as contract public defenders in the 5th Judicial District Court and the Beatty, Pahrump and Tonopah justice courts.
Nye County is looking for attorneys or law firms to serve as contract public defenders in the 5th Judicial District Court and the Beatty, Pahrump and Tonopah justice courts.
Contracts are up to $200,000 a year, paid quarterly. Work includes adult criminal cases except capital cases, juvenile appointments and rotating 48-hour in-custody hearings.
Letters of interest with qualifications are due by 5 p.m. PDT Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, to Assistant County Manager Lorina Dellinger. Commissioners are set to see them Oct. 20.
The full plain-language write-up, with dates and source links, is the Notice Nearby public paper: https://noticenearby.com/papers/nye-county-public-defender-letters-of-interest-october-8-2026.
Official source: Nye County · Request for Letters of Interest for Public Defense Services (posted Sept. 10, 2026). https://www.nyecountynv.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx
County hub: https://noticenearby.com/nv/nye. This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk brief, not the agency and not a Legal Publication. If the official page and this note disagree, the official page wins.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-DESK-nv-nye-public-defender-letters-of-intere · Nye County · Request for Letters of Interest for Public Defense Services (posted Sept. 10, 2026).
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.