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

The United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia covers the southern half of the state, with courthouse locations in Charleston (the state capital and primary courthouse, the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse), Huntington, Beckley, Bluefield, and Lewisburg. S.D.W. Va. sits within the Fourth Circuit and serves a region shaped by the legacy of the Appalachian coal industry — encompassing the Kanawha River Valley and the state capital of Charleston, the Ohio River border city of Huntington (home of Marshall University), the southern coalfields communities of Beckley, Bluefield, and the New River Gorge region, and the Greenbrier Valley community of Lewisburg near the Virginia border.

The district's federal criminal docket is deeply shaped by the opioid epidemic. Southern West Virginia was among the communities most severely affected by prescription opioid flooding and the subsequent heroin and fentanyl crisis, and the district has been at the center of federal prosecutions targeting pharmaceutical distributors, pill mills, and the drug trafficking networks that replaced prescription opioids. Drug trafficking cases — involving fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and opioids — remain the dominant category of federal criminal prosecution. Firearms offenses, financial fraud, and public corruption also appear on the docket. The Charleston courthouse handles the broadest range of criminal matters for the state capital. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in S.D.W. Va. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for southern West Virginia federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Charleston, Huntington, Beckley, and across the district to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.