Immediately prior to joining the John Marshall Law School in 2007, Professor Rapping served as Training Chief for the Orleans Public Defender, working to rebuild New Orleans’ public defender office in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the ten years prior to his work in New Orleans, he served in the Public Defenders offices of Georgia and Washington, D.C., developing and implementing public defender training programs, and handling a caseload of serious felonies. He has also taught at numerous clinical training programs for criminal defense associations, public defenders offices, and law schools throughout the country, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the National Defender Training Project. In 2007 Professor Rapping was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to develop the Southern Public Defender Training Center, devoted to training new public defenders across the Southeastern United States, a project he currently directs.

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