Bar advocates are pressing for higher wages as local lawyers say the state's current pay scale makes it difficult to attract ...

A large number of court-appointed defense lawyers may stop doing the work Tuesday, which could cause a crisis for criminal ...

Two former Massachusetts Appeals Court staffers must face allegations that they bullied and disparaged an ex-staff attorney, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held Thursday.

A Worcester mother was arrested by ICE in a chaotic scene. Her daughter's partner, and father of her 4-month-old grandchild, ...

A Massachusetts lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to charges related to embezzling a total of over $3 million from a family ...

Karen Read's defense is in full swing as a legal team led by Alan Jackson and David Yannetti looks to sow reasonable doubt in ...

Private lawyers with the Massachusetts bar advocate program say they will not take new court-appointed cases until they get a pay raise.

Earlier this spring, a legislative proposal to raise rates for Massachusetts bar advocates failed to gain traction.

Karen Read's defense opens their case after more than a month of testimony from prosecution witnesses. The Massachusetts ...

Attorneys who take bar advocate work said the low pay has driven attorneys elsewhere and limited the pool in the state.

A man living in Massachusetts who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained in April after smashing his car ...

A lawyer for a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos has asked that she be brought back to Massachusetts, three months after she was ...