CJA eVoucher AI Billing Tool
for E.D. Cal. Panel Attorneys

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California covers the inland portion of the state — the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, and the northeastern high desert — with courthouse locations in Sacramento (the primary courthouse, Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse), Fresno, and Bakersfield. E.D. Cal. sits within the Ninth Circuit and is one of the busiest federal districts in the country by case volume. The district serves a vast region encompassing Sacramento (the state capital), the agricultural San Joaquin Valley from Stockton south to Bakersfield, the Sierra Nevada mountains and national forest lands, the Lake Tahoe basin, and the sparsely populated northeastern counties bordering Nevada and Oregon.

The district's federal criminal docket is among the largest in the nation. Drug trafficking cases — particularly methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine distributed through the Central Valley's agricultural transportation infrastructure and along I-5 and Highway 99 — drive a very high volume of federal prosecutions. The Fresno and Bakersfield divisions, covering the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, generate substantial drug and firearms dockets reflecting the social conditions of some of California's most economically stressed communities. Sacramento handles public corruption, white-collar crime, and state government fraud matters alongside the heavy drug and firearms caseload. The district also has jurisdiction over substantial federal land and environmental crime matters. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in E.D. Cal. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for eastern California federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Sacramento, Fresno, and Bakersfield to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.