Showing posts with label Implementation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Implementation. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Apple Launches the First Smartphone Driver’s License/ID with Arizona

 


 

  

Apple launches the first smartphone driver’s license/ID with Arizona

Additional states to follow, including Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and the territory of Puerto Rico

 

 

Thursday, January 27, 2022

This and That in Court Tech - January 2022

 


Image by Brad Stallcup https://stocksnap.io



This month we have news about Chromebook price drops, Trinidad and Tobago’s new court electronic practice directions, Illinois state courts new electronic device policy, a new ODR system provided by the Los Angeles County courts, the England and Wales judiciary taking a new data-driven strategy approach, an article on “How to Create Access-to-Justice Tech for Courts That People Will Actually Use” and the latest from our Tiny Chat team.





Thursday, January 20, 2022

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Some Practical Advice on File Naming Conventions

 

Continuing with our practical advice October...

Courts create a lot of document files.  Some of those files get uploaded, saved, and organized in the court's case management or electronic document management systems.  And some courts use tools like SharePoint.  But even these tools can benefit from a consistent useful file naming standard.  I looked online and found two excellent pages on the subject. 

More below…


Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Some Ideas for Handling the Upcoming Covid-19 Case Surge

 


Everyone can easily foresee the surge of in-person court cases that are coming later in 2021.  Many courts have put case processing on hold.  And assuming that the vaccination program will be successful in the first half of the year, what can courts do to address the case backlog and new matters that will come?  I have some ideas that I will share below.

Please also note that my colleagues and friends of the NCSC have created a tremendous resource around courts and the pandemic at  https://www.ncsc.org/newsroom/public-health-emergency  Click on the Statewide Plans to Resume Court Operations link (you may have to scroll across the red navigation bar to find it).

 

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Explaining Why Court Tech Seemed to Move Slowly in 2020?

 


Recently I heard multiple legal technology writers bemoan the slowness that courts adopt and implement new online and similar services.  I explain why that is, and why it is likely not to get better soon in this post? It is going to be a cold winter.


Thursday, November 5, 2020

Laptops as the Court’s Standard Computer

 

 

 

In recent years I have often recommended projects to acquire laptops instead of desktop computers.  This recommendation is even stronger today. I explain the reasons for this approach in this week’s post below.

 






Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Utah ODR Usability Report

 


The Innovation for Justice Program ( www.law.arizona.edu/i4j ) at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has issued a new and insightful report titled: The Utah Online Dispute Resolution Platform: A Usability Evaluation and Report (full report available online in PDF for download here)


Wednesday, June 3, 2020

CCMS Part 21: Comments on Project Management, Acquisition, and Development


Sculpture at Davidson Co Courthouse
Old Davidson County Tennessee Courthouse sculpture by Brent Moore


Over the years I have picked up some ideas that I think can help many court technology projects.  In this penultimate post to the Court Case Management System (CCMS) series, we wish to share some of those ideas and lessons learned.  We will specifically discuss acquisition strategies, buy versus build, and sustainability. 


Thursday, February 20, 2020

This and That in Court Technology – February 2020


Irish Beef Stew


Just like the winter Irish beef stew shown in the picture to the right, we have a mix of great projects/ingredients to share this month.  They include serious security warning for Microsoft Windows, new AI decision reader from ROSS Intelligence, Lex Machina AI expanding into state courts, the PACER fees federal appeals hearing, Alaska Emailing jury summons, and automation program news from England & Wales and a new automation budget commitment for Ireland.


Friday, August 23, 2019

A Couple of Good Mobile Court Apps






Our friends in the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department have developed a couple of simple and easy to use court apps.  They are available in English and Arabic on the Apple App Store so you can download them to see how they work?




Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Comic Book Contracts



https://creative-contracts.com/

At the recent Innovating Justice Forum, I had the great honor of meeting South African lawyer Robert de Rooy who created the idea of Comic Book Contracts to allow “an illiterate person to understand their” employment contract.  While this is a technology blog, this is such a powerful idea I had to share it with our readers to think about in regard to both paper and online agreement systems.  More below…


Friday, November 23, 2018

Plain Language Forms Implemented by the Abu Dhabi Courts



Abu Dhabi Courthouses
We heard late last month from our friend, Mohamed Hesham Elrafei of the Abu Dhabi Courts about their new initiative with plan language forms and documents.  He writes and credits several contributors to the ideas they used in their new applications.  He writes:


Wednesday, October 31, 2018

E-Filing/Imaging and Large Files



In a recent project, I set a system rule for e-filing file sizes not being bigger than 20-megabytes upload into the document management system. 

Why am I against these “Jumbo” files?  I explain below…



Thursday, October 25, 2018

Practical Augmented Reality Appears


Available at Amazon 


We learned via my colleague, and ace support technician, Charlie Sillery along with a press release of the TeamViewer  Pilot augmented reality solution to see and guide people in remote locations to help them fix their problems.

But before we start, here is a PC Magazine article about the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality.  We discuss the later below…



Monday, October 1, 2018

Video Conferencing Technology in Pretrial Services



My NCSC colleague, Ms. Jannet Lewis has published an excellent case study on the use of secure video conferencing technology to assist in improving video conferencing communication in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Polk County, Florida.



Thursday, July 26, 2018

This and That in Court Tech – July 2018


Animal rescue at Rancho Del Sueno

We share news from California, a private court records access company, a huge report of technology projects from the Ohio state courts, and a commentary regarding a court in Michigan losing 3.6 million paper documents.


Friday, April 6, 2018

UK Small Claims Online System Updated

https://goo.gl/J9cxhN


We learned in a press release that our favorite and the original, small claims system for the UK Courts have been updated.  The press release is titled: "Quicker way to resolve claim disputes launched online: A new online service to make it quicker and easier for people to claim money owed, resolve disputes out of court and access mediation has gone live."

The new service is available at: https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money


Friday, March 23, 2018

More This and That in Court Tech – March 2018


https://goo.gl/yg8YSH

This edition contains a Judge’s response on court automation project criticism, Google Plus Addresses, a lawsuit between judges and clerk regarding their electronic document system implementation, editing PDF documents, the Indiana court’s E-filing implementation web page, and the new NCSC home page is announced.