The U.S. federal government shutdown continues to delay payments to defense lawyers waiting for months to be compensated for ...

Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron ...

The government shutdown threatens to stress resources for an already strapped criminal defense bar, as the federal judiciary ...

The federal program that pays court-appointed private attorneys who represent criminal defendants has run out of money, leaving thousands of attorneys across the country working without pay and ...

A coalition of left-wing groups and law professors is aggressively filing ethics complaints against high-ranking government ...

Their work is mandated by the Constitution, but their pay has been shorted by Congress. The money used to pay private attorneys appointed to represent defendants in Charlotte, North Carolina and ...

HAMMOND — A group of private defense attorneys who take on federal criminal cases in Northwest Indiana is working without compensation due to a national funding crisis that has left the program ...

Instead, she’s turning to the Democratic Attorneys General Association, DAGA, to cover her fees – which could run in the ...