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

The United States District Court for the District of South Dakota is a single federal district covering the entire state, with courthouse locations in Sioux Falls (the state's largest city and primary courthouse), Pierre (the state capital), Aberdeen, and Rapid City. D.S.D. sits within the Eighth Circuit and serves a large, geographically diverse state encompassing the eastern agricultural plains and Red River corridor communities around Sioux Falls, the Missouri River capital at Pierre, the north-central agricultural city of Aberdeen, the Black Hills and Badlands communities of Rapid City, and the resort areas of Deadwood and the Mount Rushmore region in the far west.

The district's federal criminal docket is shaped significantly by its large Native American reservation population. South Dakota has nine federally recognized tribes and several major reservations — including the Pine Ridge Reservation (home of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, one of the largest reservations in the country), Rosebud, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Flandreau Santee Sioux, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, and Yankton Sioux — and crimes on tribal lands constitute the single largest category of federal criminal prosecutions in the district. Drug trafficking (methamphetamine distribution throughout the state and into reservation communities), firearms offenses, child sexual abuse, and violent crime on tribal lands are prominent. The Rapid City courthouse serves the western Black Hills region, including a significant Lakota Sioux population. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in D.S.D. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for South Dakota federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and across the district to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.