Northern District of California · N.D. Cal. · 9th Circuit

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

PanelTime™ reads your CJA timesheet — handwritten, Word, Excel, Google Docs, or PDF — and converts it into an eVoucher-ready file automatically. AI assigns the service codes. No manual data entry.

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Abbreviation

N.D. Cal.

Divisions

San Francisco · Oakland · San Jose · Eureka

Circuit

9th Circuit

About the District

Northern District of California — Federal Court Overview

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California serves fifteen counties across the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, including San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa, and Humboldt counties. The court operates four divisions — San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Eureka — with principal courthouses at the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco and the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland.

N.D. Cal.'s federal criminal docket includes significant financial fraud and cybercrime cases driven by the district's proximity to Silicon Valley, as well as drug trafficking, immigration, and firearms offenses. The CJA panel is administered through the court's CJA office, with oversight from the Ninth Circuit. Panel attorneys in the Northern District are active across all four divisions — San Francisco and Oakland handle the largest share of criminal appointments, with San Jose also maintaining an active panel.

PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool built specifically for CJA panel attorneys. It reads your timesheet descriptions and assigns the correct eVoucher service codes automatically — eliminating the most time-consuming part of CJA billing. Panel attorneys in N.D. Cal. submit CJA-20 vouchers through the national eVoucher system; PanelTime™ produces import-ready files for that system.

How it works

From timesheet to eVoucher — N.D. Cal. panel attorneys

Works with any format N.D. Cal. panel attorneys already use.

Upload your timesheet — handwritten notes, Word, Excel, Google Docs, PDF, any format as long as it has a date, description, and hours. (see requirements)

AI reads and codes your entries — PanelTime™ automatically assigns the correct eVoucher service codes and separates services from expenses. No code lookup needed.

Import into N.D. Cal. eVoucher with one click. Use the free Chrome extension to fill your expenses tab automatically. Services and expenses, done.

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Review, correct, and submit — you stay in control. PanelTime™ only works from what you recorded. It removes the retyping step; the voucher is still yours to approve.

Common questions

N.D. Cal. panel attorneys ask

Does this AI billing tool work with the N.D. Cal. eVoucher system?

Yes. PanelTime™ produces a CSV formatted for the national eVoucher platform used in all 94 federal districts, including all four N.D. Cal. divisions — San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Eureka.

How does the AI assign service codes from my description?

PanelTime™ reads the text of each time entry and matches it to the correct CJA eVoucher service code — court appearances, legal research, client meetings, motions, and more. You review every assignment before importing.

Do I need to know the CJA service codes?

No. That's the point — the AI handles the code lookup. You write your entries the way you normally would and PanelTime™ converts them to eVoucher format.

What about expenses — travel between divisions, parking, copies?

PanelTime™ separates expenses from time entries automatically. The free Chrome extension imports your expenses into eVoucher's expenses tab with one click.

Does this work for CJA-21 service providers in the Northern District?

Yes. Include your hourly rate somewhere on the timesheet — e.g., "RATE = $85" — and PanelTime™ calculates compensation automatically for CJA-21 vouchers.

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