CJA eVoucher AI Billing Tool
for W.D. Ark. Panel Attorneys

The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas covers the western half of the state, with courthouse locations in Fort Smith (the primary courthouse), Fayetteville, Harrison, Hot Springs, Texarkana, and El Dorado. W.D. Ark. sits within the Eighth Circuit and serves a geographically diverse region that includes the Arkansas River Valley community of Fort Smith on the Oklahoma border (a historic frontier federal court), the booming Northwest Arkansas metropolitan area of Fayetteville-Bentonville-Rogers (home to the University of Arkansas and the headquarters of Walmart and Tyson Foods), the Ozark Mountain communities of Harrison, the resort city of Hot Springs, the Texarkana border area shared with Texas, and the south Arkansas oil patch communities around El Dorado.

The district's federal criminal docket includes drug trafficking (methamphetamine is particularly prominent throughout rural western Arkansas, with supply networks entering through the Oklahoma border; the I-49 corridor from the Mexican border through Fort Smith generates cocaine and fentanyl distribution cases), firearms offenses, financial fraud, and immigration offenses — the poultry and agricultural processing industries of Northwest Arkansas employ large numbers of workers and generate periodic federal immigration enforcement actions. The rapid growth of the Bentonville-Fayetteville metro area has brought financial and corporate fraud matters to the docket alongside the district's traditional rural criminal caseload. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in W.D. Ark. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for western Arkansas federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Fort Smith, Fayetteville, and across the district to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.