Last month, a work stoppage by lawyers in Massachusetts who represent indigent defendants forced judges to dismiss cases against hundreds of people who had been accused of crimes, including violent ...

More than 100 cases were dismissed out of Boston Municipal Court amid the statewide public defender strike. What about in Brockton area courts?

Public defenders are vowing to continue a push on Beacon Hill for better wages after Gov. Maura Healey signed off on a pay ...

A Lowell District Court judge on Wednesday morning criticized Middlesex County prosecutors for what he described as an unwillingness to work collaboratively amid the ongoing public defender crisis in ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. One group that isn’t pushing its own ballot question in 2026: The Massachusetts ...

Governor Maura Healey signed a new bill to give court-appointed attorneys a pay raise in hopes of ending a work stoppage.The State<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday signed the supplemental spending bill she first filed in early April, including the ...

It remains unclear if the $20 per hour raise, over the next two years, will end the lawyers ongoing work stoppage.

Joe Mazraani died in pursuit of the ‘Big Engine Steamer,’ a wreck lying 200 feet beneath the Atlantic on the eastern edge of ...

Dozens of criminal cases are being dismissed in Massachusetts and other states as public defenders refuse to take on new cases until they get a pay raise.

The husband of a top New Jersey lawyer has tragically died during a deep-dive expedition to a shipwreck off the coast of Cape ...