From Oregon to Massachusetts, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The ...

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a funding bill that includes a pay raise for public defenders as part of an effort to end a ...

More than 100 criminal cases in Boston, including with serious charges such as domestic violence, have been thrown out due to ...

As the courts are ground to a halt with a work stoppage, is it time for the state to change its public defender system?

Over 100 criminal cases in Massachusetts have been thrown out due to an ongoing work stoppage by disgruntled lawyers who ...

Just as the Republic Services strike has been called out as a threat to public health, the bar advocate work stoppage ...

So-called "bar advocates"  — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting ...

A bill that gives attorneys a pay bump is heading to Gov. Healey to sign into law. On Thursday, the Massachusetts House of ...

Massachusetts' public defender agency is asking the state's highest court to implement the Lavallee protocol in juvenile courts.

Defendants including some charged with serious crimes have begun being released in Massachusetts amid a dispute over pay for the state's public defenders.

Defendants are being released in Massachusetts in the wake of a prolonged dispute over pay for the state's public defenders, and one of those set free was charged with a serious crime.