BATON ROUGE, La. -- Five attorneys who run local public defender offices in Louisiana -- including Caddo Parish -- were replaced Tuesday even as the question of whether they have ...

Brooklyn Defender Services took over Queens Defenders’ contract after its director was indicted.

Local News Washington Supreme Court lowers public defender caseload limits The order cuts the annual felony caseload limit from 150 to 47 felony cases per attorney over a 10-year implementation ...

Fire swept through the Walker County Public Defender’s Officer in downtown Jasper. Firefighters responded about 4 a.m. Saturday to the massive blaze in the 300 block of 19th Street West ...

Northampton County Council voted 7-1 Thursday to approve a request from the county's chief public defender to make the part-time position a full-time position.

The Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board has twice failed to get a quorum to resolve a controversy of five public defenders' jobs.

TOPEKA — Heather Cessna is resigning as executive director of the state public defender’s office after years of warning apathetic legislators about the constitutional crisis they created by ...

The leadership change resulted from accusations that some people working in the Public Defenders Office were conducting themselves in an unprofessional manner, county officials told The Buffalo News.

Attorneys at the Legal Aid Society have voted to authorize a strike — meaning lawyers at New York City's biggest public defender group could stop working if management does not meet their ...

Police have said the suspect in the shooting that killed two people on the Las Vegas Strip stemmed from a social media feud, since the suspect and a victim were both YouTubers.

Ex-public defender cries foul over long sexual harassment probe by Fourth Circuit Caryn Strickland challenged the Fourth Circuit’s employment dispute resolution process which she claims violates ...

Magistrate judges handle functions in both civil and criminal cases that are delegated to them by the district court bench.