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Lawmakers outline plan to raise bar advocate wages, hire more public defenders
So-called "bar advocates" — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting new cases for more than two months as they seek higher hourly rates. Lawmakers say they plan to increase wages by $20 per hour — less than the $35 per hour bar advocates are asking for.
More than 100 criminal cases in Boston, including with serious charges such as domestic violence, have been thrown out due to ...
Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...
Over 100 criminal cases in Massachusetts have been thrown out due to an ongoing work stoppage by disgruntled lawyers who ...
Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has ...
A judge in Boston is set to decide if dozens of criminal defendants in Massachusetts will walk free Tuesday after they were<a ...
Top Democrats announced a deal to increase the wages of private attorneys working the legal cases of people who are unable to ...
The state’s public defender agency is asking a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to implement the Lavallee protocol in place for courts in Suffolk and Middlesex counties to now include ...
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