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

The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana covers the western portion of the state, with courthouse locations in Shreveport (the primary courthouse), Lafayette, Lake Charles, Alexandria, Monroe, and Opelousas. W.D. La. sits within the Fifth Circuit and serves a geographically large and economically diverse region that spans the oil-and-gas hub of Shreveport near the Texas-Arkansas border, the Cajun and Creole cultural heartland of Lafayette and the Acadiana prairie, the petrochemical refinery corridor of Lake Charles along the Texas border, the central Louisiana piney woods and military installations around Alexandria, the northern Louisiana cotton and timber communities of Monroe, and the historic Opelousas courthouse territory of the Attakapas country.

The district's federal criminal docket includes drug trafficking (I-10 between Houston and New Orleans is a major corridor for cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, generating significant cases in the Lake Charles and Lafayette divisions), firearms offenses, financial fraud, public corruption, and crimes arising from military installations — Fort Johnson (formerly Fort Polk), one of the Army's largest installations, is located in Vernon Parish within the Alexandria division and generates a steady volume of federal criminal appointments. The Shreveport area generates drug and firearms cases along the Red River corridor. CJA panel attorneys in W.D. La. may need to travel among six courthouse cities spread across hundreds of miles. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

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