The inspector general put significant blame for the failures on the Committee for Public Counsel Services, which is ...

Shutdown impacts 12,000 US private lawyers for indigent defendants Courts' ability to provide representation amid funding shortfall in question Sole practitioners face financial strain, may stop ...

The move comes after attorneys in Colorado’s indigent defense community revolted against new executive director Joanna Landau.

DES MOINES — Modernizing Iowa’s magistrate system and increasing judicial and indigent defense pay were issues highlighted by Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen during the annual ...

Pennsylvania’s first two years of funding indigent defense resulted in progress toward better services for criminal ...

LOWELL — One day before Beacon Hill lawmakers passed legislation to raise pay for bar advocates — prompting disappointment from attorneys who called it a “slap in the face” — a judge authorized $100 ...