CJA eVoucher AI Billing Tool
for N.D. Okla. Panel Attorneys

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma covers the northeastern corner of the state, with a single courthouse in Tulsa (the Page Belcher Federal Building and United States Courthouse). N.D. Okla. sits within the Tenth Circuit and serves a compact but densely populated region anchored by Tulsa — Oklahoma's second-largest city and the historic center of the state's oil industry — along with the surrounding Green Country communities of northeastern Oklahoma, the Osage Hills, the Cherokee Nation lands stretching east to the Arkansas border, and the Creek Nation territory declared by the Supreme Court in McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) to remain reservation land for purposes of federal criminal jurisdiction.

The McGirt decision fundamentally transformed the N.D. Okla. criminal docket. The Supreme Court's 2020 ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian Country for Major Crimes Act purposes shifted a large volume of cases previously prosecuted in state court to federal jurisdiction. The district's CJA panel saw a dramatic increase in appointments as the United States Attorney's Office began prosecuting crimes that had long been handled by Oklahoma state courts. The district's docket now includes a substantial volume of violent crime, sexual assault, child abuse, and homicide cases arising from the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nation territories within the district. Drug trafficking, firearms, and financial fraud cases continue alongside the expanded Tribal criminal docket. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in N.D. Okla. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for northern Oklahoma federal panel attorneys — converting Tulsa timesheets to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.