These huge caseloads result in thousands of erroneous terminations of welfare benefits, causing needless hardship among the city's poor.

In his later years, Mr. Belli's firm maintained a huge caseload.

Social workers who survived layoffs have performed triage with the huge caseloads they inherited, focussing on extreme hardship cases and thus neglecting some clients who stand a better chance.

The huge caseloads force many lawyers to cut corners, leaving clients with little meaningful legal help.

The fund will recognize other winners, not for a specific accomplishment, but for their exemplary work in the face of huge and often disheartening caseloads.

And like their colleagues, the prosecutors here are battling a familiar problem, a huge caseload of numbing complexity.

Its judges typically serve in tiny courtrooms - the Bronx Housing Court is in the courthouse basement - with small support staffs and huge caseloads.

They work in crumbling buildings, under enormous pressure, with huge caseloads.

And school guidance counselors, with huge caseloads, often do not find out about domestic violence.

They said that huge caseloads and lack of basic resources like cars for conducting visits and cellphones for field work meant that they were hard pressed just to handle crisis cases.