About Us
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
- Proven Trial attorney; in 19 of 23 jury trials between 2014 and 2016, jurors found Sloane Kondrlik’s clients "not guilty" or entered split verdicts in favor of the defense.
- Represented clients in over 4600 cases since 2005.
- Death Penalty Attorney; Sloane Kondrlik represented the last three defendants facing the death penalty in Erie County.
- Chief Public Defender and former First Assistant Public Defender and Chief of Appeals of the Erie County Public Defender's Office.
- Criminal Law Instructor; Sloane Kondrlik teaches criminal law classes to Pennsylvania attorneys including Erie County Bar Association's ethics and criminal law update, a fines and costs class with the ACLU and Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' continuing legal education.
- Faculty member for the Public Defender Association’s 2018 and 2019 Trial Skills multi-day workshop in Carlisle Pennsylvania and 2020 remote workshop.
- Prolific writer contributing articles to criminal law related publications. Her article about illigal sentences is found here. http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/PACDL/FORTHEDEFENSE_vol3_issue4_2018/index.php?startid=44#/44
Education, Awards & Passions
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
- Sloane Kondrlik serves on the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) Board since 2018 and has been a member of PACDL since 2006.
- Sloane Kondrlik is a Board member of the Public Defenders Association of Pennsylvania (PDAP).
- For over a decade, Sloane Kondrlik was a quarterly Contributor to Graterfriends, a publication of the Pennsylvania Prison Society.
- Sloane Kondrlik served as a session member/elder of a First Presbyterian Church From 2017-2020 and continues to serve as guest speaker several Sundays every year.
- Sloane Kondrlik is an Army Veteran; she is airborne qualified, was an enlisted soldier and then commissioned as a Regular Army Patriot Missile officer.
- Sloane Kondrlik’s awards include the Gideon Award, Pennsylvania Public Defender Association 2017, only one Gideon is awarded each year.
- Sloane Kondrlik is a 2017 Special Court Judges Award recipient; in recognition of outstanding service and dedication to the community and citizens.
- Sloane Kondrlik has a Industrial engineering background; Experience in industrial engineering has allowed Sloane to efficiently and effectively handle large caseloads.
- Sloane Kondrlik served as an Editorial Board member of For the Defense, a Publication of Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL) until 2021.
- Sloane Kondrlik earned a J.D. at Duquesne School of Law and a B.S. in Secondary Mathematics Education at I.U.P.
Tips and Social Media
Trial Attorney, Erie County Pennsylvania
Tips and Social Media
- Are you concerned about someone living with an untreated addiction to drugs or alcohol? Al Anon or Nar-Anon may help you
- If someone you love has been arrested as a result of crimes committed because of a serious mental illness, check out the fantastic book Crazy by Pete Earley
- For a technique to work with individuals with serious mental illness the LEAP program may help. Video link here. https://youtu.be/NXxytf6kfPM
- Link to Facebook page
- Link to Twitter page
- Link to Linkedin page https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-sloane-kondrlik-83a62119
- Video - advice for individuals recently charged with criminal offense
- ACLU guide to fines and costs https://www.aclupa.org/en/campaigns/modern-debtors-prisons-fines-costs-and-restitution
- Erie County Public Defender. https://eriecountypa.gov/departments/public-defender/
- Pennsylvania Veteran Farmers. https://www.pavetfarms.org