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

Lawmakers are proposing a $10 increase to the hourly wage this year and another $10 increase next year for the defense ...

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

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

The spending plan lawmakers sent to Healey on Thursday "addresses timely issues through key, targeted investments," state ...

The House and Senate will vote on the take-it-or-leave-it proposal on Thursday after some dissatisfied attorneys quickly ...

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

The move represented a rare attempt to seek accountability for rank-and-file lawyers who have represented the Trump ...

Top Beacon Hill Democrats offered no timeline Monday for a resolution to a months-long work stoppage of private attorneys who ...

Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has ...

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

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