Amid a spiraling shortage of court-appointed defense attorneys, Massachusetts’ top court is being asked to release jailed indigent defendants left without lawyers — including more than a dozen in ...

More than 1,300 people in Massachusetts have gone to court without a lawyer since last month due to a shortage of court-appointed attorneys, according to the Committee for Public Counsel Services, ...

The Committee for Public Counsel Services has reached out to 50 law schools and hired 22 new attorneys over a 17-day span in August as it moves forward with "the largest staffing expansion in the ...

In a rare win for the anti-abortion rights movement in Illinois, the state attorney general’s office has entered into an agreement to permanently prohibit enforcement of a controversial new law ...