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

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas covers the eastern portion of the state, with courthouse locations in Tyler (the primary courthouse), Beaumont, Sherman, Marshall, Texarkana, and Lufkin. E.D. Tex. sits within the Fifth Circuit and serves a large and economically diverse region encompassing the Piney Woods of East Texas from the Louisiana border west to the suburbs of Dallas-Fort Worth, the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor around Beaumont and Port Arthur (the Golden Triangle), the Sherman-Denison communities in the Red River Valley near the Oklahoma border, the historic courthouse city of Marshall, the Arkansas-Texas border community of Texarkana, and the timber and agricultural communities of Lufkin in the Sam Houston National Forest region.

The district's federal criminal docket includes drug trafficking — the East Texas region, stretching from the Louisiana border to the DFW exurbs, sees cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl cases arising from distribution networks along US-59, US-69, and I-20 — firearms offenses, financial fraud, and immigration offenses. E.D. Tex. is also nationally known for its civil patent docket, particularly the Waco and Marshall divisions, which have attracted a disproportionate share of patent litigation. Beaumont handles Gulf Coast drug interdiction and petrochemical industry fraud matters. The Sherman division, nearest to Dallas-Fort Worth, has grown with the DFW metro's suburban expansion into Collin, Denton, and surrounding counties. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in E.D. Tex. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for eastern Texas federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Tyler, Beaumont, Sherman, and across the district to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.