First increases will take effect this month, but others will have to wait until the Legal Aid Agency sorts out its troubled ...

The monthly breakdown shows that €13.37 million was spent on criminal legal aid in July alone compared with a spend of €9.02 ...

Criminal legal aid fee increases are a step forward for this vital public service after decades of underfunding.

Wealthy defendants can hire video crews to help them argue for more lenient treatment. Public defenders are trying to get in on it, too. By Karen Zraick The filmmaker set up his tripod outside a South ...

The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last walked out in 1994. By Hurubie Meko Lawyers with the Legal Aid Society in New ...