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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 ...
Over 100 criminal cases in Massachusetts have been thrown out due to an ongoing work stoppage by disgruntled lawyers who ...
Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...
Just as the Republic Services strike has been called out as a threat to public health, the bar advocate work stoppage ...
Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has ...
BOSTON — 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 crime.
Top Democrats announced a deal to increase the wages of private attorneys working the legal cases of people who are unable to ...
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More than 120 defendants in Massachusetts have had their charges — ranging from assault to drug possession — dropped after ...
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