A group of advocates gathered at the State House Thursday to protest the deal, which they say, was constructed in a back room ...

Twenty-five more cases were dismissed Tuesday, while bar advocates said the 30 percent raise over two years is "ridiculous." ...

The agreement struck Wednesday "balances sustainable rate increases for private bar advocates with continuing fiscal and ...

Lowell District Court Judge John Coffey approved higher pay for attorneys in three cases, while lawmakers offered a smaller ...

The bill calls for a $20 raise over two years, instead of the $35 raise the private defense lawyers were seeking.

Dozens more defendants faced with criminal charges in the Bay State saw their legal woes disappear on Tuesday when the courts ...

Following a work stoppage in May, bar advocates are getting a pay raise--but it is not as high as they requested.

Two months after bar advocates stopped taking new cases to demand pay raises, legislative leaders on Wednesday rolled out a ...

We’re going nowhere,” one of the lawyers, known as bar advocates, said during a demonstration at the State House.

So-called "bar advocates"  — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting ...

Top Beacon Hill Democrats offered no timeline Monday for a resolution to a months-long work stoppage of private attorneys who are pushing lawmakers to raise the hourly rate they are paid to take ...

This story was updated at 8:50 p.m. July 30, 2025, to add a Lowell district judge’s order to pay three bar advocates $100 an hour to represent three defendants. Private defense attorneys in ...