Due to low compensation rates causing bar advocates to decline court-appointed cases, Massachusetts is facing a surge of ...

Many lawyers stopped taking new cases to protest their abysmal pay, and scores of needy defendants lack representation.

Several measures impacting the practice of criminal law are set to take effect this year, from better standards for police ...

A Pew Research study in 2019 found that 90% of criminal defendants plead guilty and fewer than 1% of the 2% that went to ...

The request came as lawyers in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s separate civil case were poised to ask a different judge to ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs attorney Teny Geragos argued against racketeering and sex trafficking charges while emphasizing voluntary ...

Lawyers for two crypto investors charged with kidnapping a man for his Bitcoin say they have evidence showing the accuser ...

But during the summer, when this criminal defense lawyer’s stretch of eastern Long Island turns into a playground for the rich, his focus is on clients arrested for driving while intoxicated ...

Bove previously was one of Trump’s top criminal defense attorneys. And for the past four months, as a senior official at the Justice Department, he has implemented Trump’s demands for ...

president of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “This is not sustainable. It is not just." The bar advocates handle about 80% of cases involving indigent clients ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is nominating his former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove, who as a high-ranking Justice Department official was behind the ...