The NC Administrative Office of the Courts seeks a business focused technology leader to develop and implement the next generation of court technology, while optimizing the current technology portfolio to prepare for future changes.
The City of Corpus Christi “City”, Texas Municipal Court is seeking proposals from qualified Proposers for a MUNICIPAL COURT AUTOMATED CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. The court will also consider jury system functionality as part of this RFP.
On June 24, the Supreme Court of Texas issued an amended order requiring electronic filing by attorneys in the appellate courts, district courts, statutory county courts, constitutional county courts and statutory probate courts.
The high profile trial of defendant George Zimmerman in the Florida State Courts had an embarrassing moment with Skype video conferencing on July 3, 2013. There is a way to keep that from happening.
The NCSC is embarking on a mission to implement a software solution that will support improved administrative business processes. Vendors are invited to provide complete ERP solutions, or they may partner with other providers to ensure a complete solution of integrated “best of breed” products. Responses to the Request for Information (RFI) should be submitted no later than July 1, 2013.
A significant report has been created and shared by Dr. Julie Macfarlane at the University of Windsor, Canada with results that all courts should consider. Her report is summarized by our good friend, Rob Richards of the Legal Informatics Blog.
OLYMPIA, WA -- The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced today that a data breach occurred recently on its public website. No court records were altered and no financial data was maintained on the site. However, it has been confirmed that 94 social security numbers were obtained. There is also the potential that up to 160,000 social security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers may have been accessed as well.
In the previous article we discussed the concept of “buckets” or “slots” that are created so that cases can be assigned in a controlled and orderly manner. And we also discussed the idea of scheduling a team of staff. But there are many additional needs that should be addressed in a modern court calendaring system.
This edition of our Court Case Management Systems series will discuss court scheduling and calendaring. This first part will focus on core functionality while in the next, we will discuss what needs to be done to have scheduling and calendaring systems take advantage of existing and future technology.
There are many exciting things happening in the world of legal information systems. One innovative graphical presentation approach has been taken by Ravel. We were recently fortunate to have Daniel respond to our questions in the following article.
The Forum on the Advancement of Court Technology (FACT), a special committee of NACM, is pleased to invite you to nominate a court or court-related website for its 2013 Top Ten Websites Award. All nominations are due no later than May 15 to be considered.
Criminal sentence data is one of the most challenging aspects in Court Case Management Systems design. This chapter in our ongoing series forwards some ideas on the subject.
ODF is an XML international standard for word processing documents that is now fully supported in Microsoft's recent release of Office 2013. Why does this matter?
Some news that we have picked up from the court tech world. And for our international friends, here is a link to information about what Groundhog Day is and even better, the film.
Several courts have issued new court policies dealing with electronic device use in the courthouse, E-filing, and the California Attorney General provides mobile application privacy recommendations.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court is pleased to announce that publicly available Estate and Administration cases are now accessible via the internet.
The Arizona Supreme Court is requesting proposals from qualified bidders to provide an automated judicial decision support system designed to reduce the courts reliance on paper that will allow for real-time updating and viewing of digital case documents.