A couple of weeks ago I shared some of “my problems with pending case statistics”. Before that, I posted another note regarding an alternative for analyzing criminal justice data. I generally try not to complain about things without having a solution in mind. In this article, I will share the idea of using text analytics to work with a court’s largest data source, case documents, and reports.
We’re happy to announce this year’s keynote speaker, Peter Warren Singer. Named one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators by Smithsonian Magazine, Singer is a notable influencer, global thinker, and “mad scientist” by organizations including Defense News, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.
A strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America, Singer is an award-winning author of novels and non-fiction books about military privatization, robotics, the weaponization of social media, and cyberwar and cybersecurity.
My friends in the NCSC Tiny Chat Division, have been doing some terrific work lately. Here is a selection of some interesting and fun sessions.
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| 2015 finalists:: Cynthia Marr, Audrey Jun, and Chris Lundquist |
The National Center for State Courts is pleased to announce
a call for applications for the James E.
McMillan Award (McMillan Award) for Innovation in Court Technology. The winner, selected by a committee of court
technology experts, will receive a full scholarship to attend CTC 2021 in Columbus,
OH, September 28-29, 2021. This full
scholarship includes a waiver of conference registration, four nights accommodation
at a conference hotel, and round-trip travel expenses. The approximate value of
this scholarship is $2,000.
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The National Center for State Courts is excited to deliver the ideas, information, and strategies to put technology to work in our courts. Education is the reason we host the Court Technology Conference. As usual, we’re featuring multiple education tracks covering practical applications of technology and innovation. This year, there’s a particular focus on what we can learn from our pandemic experiences.
NCSC Releases Evaluation and Performance Measures Framework for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Programs
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state courts accelerated efforts to implement online dispute resolution (ODR) programs that offer litigants a software platform in which to resolve legal problems, including negotiating settlements or exchanging information in preparation for in-court hearings.
One of my more strongly held observations from working with court data is the statistical perceptions of case backlogs, or “pending cases” as they are generally used are simply wrong. I think that this is because they often do not really describe the court’s caseload situation. I explain...
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the incorporation of the National Center for State Courts. The "founding moment happened on March 11, 1971.
Our press release said:
"It was 50 years ago — March 11, 1971 — that the First National Conference on the Judiciary opened at the Williamsburg Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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The US Government General Services Administration’s 18F Team
performed an “11-week Path Analysis on the federal judiciary’s Case Management
and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system. Our research focused on user needs,
business agility, organization and processes, and the Administrative Office of
the U.S. Courts’ (AO) culture and legal mandates.”
We discuss below.
Full details and application are available through NeoGov The posting closes on June 25, 2021.
The Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) role is to provide vision and leadership for identifying, acquiring and implementing information technologies for the Nevada Appellate Courts. The CIO consults and collaborates with the State Court Administrator/Director of the AOC, Clerk of Court, Supreme Court Justices, the Judicial Council Technology Committee, Supreme Court IT Steering Committee, and other committees as necessary to develop statewide information technology policies, strategies, and standards.