Attorney work stoppage surfacing safety, due process, fiscal issues

Attorney work stoppage surfacing safety, due process, fiscal issues

BOSTON — Calling it a “$100 million issue,” top legislative Democrats say they are discussing the impacts of a work stoppage by attorneys who represent indigent defendants, but have yet to reach any consensus on private attorney pay. “On the request side of it, if we were to grant what some folks have been requesting — and it’s a little challenging, because there’s a lot of different entities out there having different requests, but if you take …