Miami Public Defender Carlos Martinez says attorneys in his office have been more and more overworked in the past two years.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

"No matter the number of attorneys there is no way we can completely fill the funding gap with just volunteer attorneys.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Vaccine court is a system where government attorneys defended a government program using government funded science, decided by government judges."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

They were given 10 years at hard labor. Defense attorneys for several of the defendants said they plan to appeal the sentences.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

He says the pro bono attorneys are helping in the crisis, but they are not the solution.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

"It's Howard's gentle manner that really is a benchmark for young attorneys entering into art law."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Now Martinez is expanding a pro bono program, where Ben Reiss and about two dozen other private attorneys are working misdemeanor and felony cases.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

In language both lawyerly and graphic, the attorneys gave legal justification to slap,strip,and shackle detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Two years ago,as Philadelphia faced a staggering number of home foreclosures,city officials, lender attorneys and homeowner advocates sat down to see what could be done.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

In four memos dating to 2002 and 2005, attorneys of the Bush administration Justice Department spelled out how far CIA officers could go in handling suspected terrorists.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Most indigent people facing charges use defense attorneys from state-funded public defender offices.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Homeowners are represented during the negotiations by volunteer attorneys.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Many,like a young woman who allowed her voice to be recorded in Amharic, charged her loved one's rights had been violated because prison visits by family members and attorneys had been prohibited.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

"And basically it is to take a brief freeze frame on individual cases to see if we can really break them down and have face to face communications between those representing consumers or homeowners with lender attorneys to see if deals can be struck."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"What they're addressing are the diminished values of the cars nationwide, as the result of Toyota's misinformation and mismanagement of the company, through no fault of the consumers.' Northeastern University Law Professor Tim Howard, leads a consortium of attorneys that will make the case for a single class action lawsuit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26