Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to approve a pay raise for public defenders in hopes of ending a legal crisis ...

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

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 ...

"I strongly urge the bar advocates to get back to work,” state Senate President Karen E. Spilka, D-Middlesex/Norfolk, said.

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

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

Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...

More than 120 defendants in Massachusetts have had their charges — ranging from assault to drug possession — dropped after ...

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