How are cases being handled amid the Bronx Defenders strike? Blackburn spoke with amNewYork on Tuesday as hundreds of Bronx Defenders legal professionals picketed outside the Bronx Hall of Justice, where he and dozens of his colleagues represent hundreds each day. Clients caught in the middleThe Bronx Defenders represent people who otherwise couldn’t afford legal representation. Since then, however, Bronx Defenders management has upped its availability, and the two parties bargained for over seven hours Tuesday. Bronx Defenders is the final public defense firm on strike after a string of contract negotiations at firms across the boroughs broke down and landed nearly one thousand public defenders on strike over the past two weeks.