The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a ...

Private attorneys assigned to defendants who can't afford an attorney take on about 40% of federal cases, but they stopped getting paid July 3 because of systemwide funding shortfall. Public defender ...

Private defense attorneys who represent indigent clients in federal court are not getting paid for nearly three months — until Oct. 1. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 that federal funding for ...

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko and Ventura County Public Defender Claudia Y. Bautista write about legal ...

The Louisiana Public Defender Board sided on a 5-4 vote with Chief Public Defender Remy Starns, who decided not to renew the contracts of five top parish public defenders.

Funds to pay contracted attorneys dried up July 3, according to the Federal Public Defender's Office in North Dakota and South Dakota. That could result in delays for justice and harm to defendants.

Local News Washington Supreme Court lowers public defender caseload limits The order cuts the annual felony caseload limit from 150 to 47 felony cases per attorney over a 10-year implementation ...

The Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board has twice failed to get a quorum to resolve a controversy of five public defenders' jobs.

The new standards would reduce the amount of cases that public defenders can take on by roughly 68%.

The Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board voted 5-4 Monday to uphold the ouster of five attorneys who lead local public defender offices.

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...