CJA eVoucher AI Billing Tool
for S.D. Ill. Panel Attorneys

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois covers the southern third of the state, with courthouse locations in East St. Louis (the primary courthouse, the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. United States Courthouse), Benton, and Alton. S.D. Ill. sits within the Seventh Circuit and serves a region that includes the densely populated Metro East communities across the Mississippi River from St. Louis (Belleville, Collinsville, O'Fallon, and East St. Louis itself), the historic riverfront city of Alton on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi north of St. Louis, the agricultural and coal communities of Benton in the heart of Little Egypt, and the southernmost tip of the state at Cairo where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi.

The district's federal criminal docket reflects its geography at the intersection of the Mississippi River corridor and the St. Louis metropolitan area. Drug trafficking cases — particularly heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine flowing through the St. Louis drug distribution networks across the river into Illinois — drive a substantial volume of federal prosecutions. The East St. Louis courthouse handles cases arising from one of the most economically distressed urban communities in the Midwest. Firearms offenses are prominent throughout the district. The Benton courthouse serves a large swath of rural southern Illinois including Carbondale (home to Southern Illinois University), the Shawnee National Forest, and the communities of the Illinois coalfields. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in S.D. Ill. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for southern Illinois federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from East St. Louis, Benton, and Alton to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.