Friday, July 7, 2017
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Event Time
In the CCMS series we wrote about events and tasks. In that article, we mentioned event weights that reflects the amount of work that was expended on that event. But there is another way that we can augment the event record. We explain.
Friday, June 23, 2017
Not Just Police Body Cams
GoPro Pet Camera Mounts |
A recent Pennsylvania appellate court decision points out that the record keepers will deal with more than just law enforcement body camera evidence. Courts are having to deal with video evidence from many sources.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
CTC 2017: Is your courthouse prepared for a cyber attack?
The CTC-2017 opening keynote speaker is Mark Lanterman, chief technology officer at Computer Forensic Services in Minneapolis.
He will talk about recent high-profile cyber attacks that have victimized businesses, hospitals, and government agencies. He also will tell us about cyber threats that could specifically hurt the courts, such as “The Dark Web,” “The Internet of Things,” and phishing, among other things.
Also, the full detailed conference schedule is also now available once you have created an account. It's quick and easy to do.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
This and That in Court Tech – June, 2017
https://www.travelwisconsin.com/ |
In this month’s news roundup we learn about Wisconsin's E-filing activities, news about Ravel Law and Court Innovations, Google's improved ability in language recognition, and some notes about improving communication understanding.
And last, some CTC 2017 educational program agenda news.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Technology Solutions for Self-Represented Litigants
The University of Denver's Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) announced the release of Court Compass: Mapping the Future of User Access Through Technology, a compendium and analysis of court-offered solutions for self-represented litigants (SRLs), along with maturity models to guide the development of integrated solutions in courts nationwide. See this recent post on the IAALS Online Issues Blog for more details.
IAALS is also participating with a number of other organizations, including the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), on the newly formed OASIS Litigant Portal Technical Committee (LP TC).
The LP TC will be developing technical standards for litigant portal interfaces that will expedite and simplify development of solutions to assist potential litigants without legal representation overcome barriers of cost and complexity. The work of the LP TC will leverage experiences in recent portal projects as well as requirements identified in a 2015 report titled Building a Litigant Portal: Business and Technical Requirements. Any OASIS member may participate on the LP TC. If you're interested but not yet a member of OASIS, information on how to join is available here.
IAALS is also participating with a number of other organizations, including the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), on the newly formed OASIS Litigant Portal Technical Committee (LP TC).
The LP TC will be developing technical standards for litigant portal interfaces that will expedite and simplify development of solutions to assist potential litigants without legal representation overcome barriers of cost and complexity. The work of the LP TC will leverage experiences in recent portal projects as well as requirements identified in a 2015 report titled Building a Litigant Portal: Business and Technical Requirements. Any OASIS member may participate on the LP TC. If you're interested but not yet a member of OASIS, information on how to join is available here.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Courts Could Help to Protect Drivers from Traffic Ticket Phishing E-mail
CyberheistNews posted an article about “the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are being targeted, stating they have 48 hours to pay a fine or have their driver's license revoked.” In this post, we share some ideas that courts may consider to help to reduce or eliminate this problem.
Friday, June 2, 2017
Tyler Technologies Acquires Modria
Via press release on May 30, 2017 -Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced it has acquired Modria, a company specializing in online dispute resolution (ODR) for government and commercial entities, to complement its courts and justice and appraisal and tax solutions.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
CTC 2017 Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 31st
Salt Palace Convention Center |
CTC 2017 is only about 100 days away! Are you registered yet?
CTC 2017 features five tracks this year (plus the usual bonus of a separate sponsor track). This year’s sessions will focus on:
- Show Me the Data!
- Next Generation Courts
- Maintaining Public Trust and Confidence
- User-Friendly Courts
- Looking to the Future
Check out some of the highlighted sessions in each track, and keep your eyes open for the complete agenda, coming very soon!
Register before May 31st to get the early bird rate of $750.00. Once you register, you’ll be able to secure your hotel room from one of the four great properties, all within walking distance of the Salt Palace Convention Center.
Click here to go to the registration webpage.
Also - click on the registration drop-down menu to learn about the McMillan Scholarship opportunity. Submissions are due June 19, 2017.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
This and That in Court Technology - May, 2017
New US Courts Jury Kiosks |
In this month's news we learn about Michigan's E-filing RFP award, two new court tech announcement from the US Federal Courts, new ideas from the Open Law Lab blog on service process in Massachusetts, the Supreme Court of India's new CMS/E-filing system, the 2016 Judicial Effectiveness Index for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and about the 2017 E-Sign Records Conference to be held in San Francisco later this year.
Monday, May 15, 2017
JTC releases "Courts Disrupted" paper . . .
The Joint Technology Committee (JTC) has released a new Resource Bulletin titled “Courts Disrupted.” This paper takes a captivating look at today’s fast-changing world of innovation and public expectations. Recognizing courts will not remain untouched by disruptive innovation, the paper encourages embracing rather than resisting the opportunities to improve business processes and make justice more readily available to a wider audience.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Microsoft AI Services are Getting Real
Brussels Atomium |
An excellent article posted on arstechnica.com on May 10, 2107 titled: “Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense”. The subtitle is: “The API’s are getting good enough to be built into production systems”. This is getting interesting. More on the article below.
Friday, May 5, 2017
DC Courts Compile Report on Remote Public Access to Electronic Court Records
Prepared by the Remote Access to Court Electronic Records (RACER) Committee of the Council for Court Excellence, and assisted by the National Center for State Courts, with funding by the State Justice Institute, the committee released their report in April 2017 on public access to electronic court records.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Handwritten Signatures - "Now a Punchline" - Part 4
There is a new example in our continuing series on traditional handwritten signatures being used to fake court documents has surfaced. More below.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
This and That in Court Tech – April, 2017
Illinois' Abraham Lincoln statue in London |
In this round-up of news, we hear about E-filing in Illinois, Identity Theft in Alabama, the NAJIS annual conference, Foxit PDF on forms, warnings about legal chatbots, an article on court/legal algorithmic projects, and an interesting cloud adoption survey results article.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Sponsorship opportunities at CourtHack 2.0
NCSC will be hosting CourtHack 2.0 April 22-23, 2017 at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Participating teams will come together from a variety of sources: universities, not-for-profit development groups, industry, courts, and individuals gathering and forming teams on site. We anticipate around 150 participants, dividing into about 30 teams. Court experts from across the county, including judges, court administrators, and court CIOs, will participate as mentors, providing insight into the issues and the potential benefits to both courts and the communities they serve.
The challenge sets for CourtHack 2.0 include:
- Fairness in Fees, Fines, and Bail Practices
- Fairness: Leveling the Playing Field
- Understanding Customer Experience
- Translating Legalese to Folksonomy
- Social Support for Families in Crisis
- Wildcard! Closing Gaps in the Court System
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Time is running out - register now for the 2017 Court Industry Summit
If you are a solution provider to courts, you don't want to miss this opportunity to have an open and candid dialog with thought leaders from the judicial branch and your private-sector peers.
This event will be hosted by the NCSC and facilitated by the IJIS Institute's Courts Advisory Committee. Organizations who are members of IJIS receive a registration discount.
Topics will include technology trends, disruptors, and next-generation court technology standards with perspectives from leaders in federal, state and local courts. You and your industry peers will also have the opportunity to share your perspectives on trends and technologies courts should be considering.
The summit will be held April 19-20 at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal in Princeton, NJ. For more information and to register, go to http://www.ncsc.org/Conferences-and-Events/Industry-Summit-2017.aspx.
Today (March 29) is the last day to get the group rate at the hotel - go here to make your reservations.
This event will be hosted by the NCSC and facilitated by the IJIS Institute's Courts Advisory Committee. Organizations who are members of IJIS receive a registration discount.
Topics will include technology trends, disruptors, and next-generation court technology standards with perspectives from leaders in federal, state and local courts. You and your industry peers will also have the opportunity to share your perspectives on trends and technologies courts should be considering.
The summit will be held April 19-20 at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal in Princeton, NJ. For more information and to register, go to http://www.ncsc.org/Conferences-and-Events/Industry-Summit-2017.aspx.
Today (March 29) is the last day to get the group rate at the hotel - go here to make your reservations.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Daniel Lewis on Judge Analytics
This week we are happy to share a new interview with Daniel Lewis, CEO and Co-founder of Ravel Law on their new Judge Analytics system.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Some More Thoughts on CMS Data Conversion
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
This and That in Court Technology – March, 2017
Time for another round-up of court technology related items. In this edition we remind everyone of the CTC 2017 proposal deadline, the Wyoming courts need to increase their Court Automation Fee, an online paperless court savings calculator, an argument for AI technology to replace juries in the future, and a story about "Amy Ingram", a digital scheduling assistant "bot" program.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
CTC 2017 Call for Proposals
Salt Lake City, Utah skyline |
The Court Technology Conference (CTC) 2017 will be held September 12-14 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Palace Convention Center. If you know CTC, you know our tradition of bringing new perspectives to techy tools for the court profession. This year we are reaching out to the court community for session ideas that will energize teams of administrators, technologists, and judges to attend our education program.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
CTC-2017 Program Development Survey
Our conference planners for the upcoming CTC-2017 to be held in Salt Lake City from September 12-14, 2017 are asking for your help. They have posted an online survey to gather your ideas to make the conference the best it can possibly be.
Also, conference registration is open and available at http://www.ctc2017.org/Registration.aspx
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Cell phones out of control? Call Yondr.
Fed up with cell phones in your courtroom? Concerned about the surreptitious recording of witnesses, undercover agents and/or jurors? Are your jurors accessing cell/mobile devices when they shouldn't be? Are witnesses in your courtrooms communicating via text when they shouldn't be? At the E-Courts 2016 conference we learned about Yondr, a company that provides a new and different solution for cell/mobile phone device security in courthouses and secure facilities.
Friday, February 10, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Machine Intelligence Analyses Judges
I have predicted for a very long time that the “market research” that started with consumers in the 90’s with the advent of the Internet would be coming to the courts. LexisNexis made it official this week in their press release “LexisNexis Integrates Lex Machina Legal Analytics into Lexis Advance Online Legal Information Solution”
What does this mean? I will begin the discussion below.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
CourtHack 2.0 Coming - Spring, 2017
Robot lawyers that help file court appeals and geo-positioning technology that alerts police officers when court orders are being served in their area are just two of the innovative technologies developed at NCSC’s first CourtHack in 2016. It was so successful that CourtHack 2.0 is being held April 22-23, 2017, at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick. CourtHack aims to attract the brightest legal minds, technologists, entrepreneurs, and others to compete in a 30-hour hackathon to develop technologies to improve the administration of justice. Court experts, including judges, court administrators, and court CIOs from across the country, participate as mentors and advisors.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
This and That in Court Technology – January, 2017
Just like the National Football League (USA style pictured here), there is a lot of news regarding digital transformation. The edition has notes on an American Bar Association report on E-Briefing, Nebraska appellate court E-filing, a Robot Lawyer application for parking tickets, a RAND corporation report on “Future Proofing” justice, commentary on potentially opening California legal publication, and a couple of technologies that need to be sent to the trash bin.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Friday, January 6, 2017
Court Tech Research & Training News – January, 2017
There have been several interesting articles, and research published related to court technology topics over the past several months. In this post, we share articles on Decision Making, Online Access to State Judicial Systems, Evaluating the Use of Videoconferencing Technology in Domestic Violence Ex Parte Hearings, Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology, and a Free Webinar on Cybersecurity coming up on January 18, 2017.
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
E-Courts Conference Presentations Video Available
Last weeks E-Courts Conference had an outstanding set of educational sessions. They are now available online at:
http://www.e-courts.org/Media/Videos.aspx
I particularly enjoyed the sessions that offered solutions including::
There are great ideas in all of the conference sessions, and if you weren't able to attend, or would like to share them with your court, you can now do so. Congratulations to all for a great conference.
http://www.e-courts.org/Media/Videos.aspx
I particularly enjoyed the sessions that offered solutions including::
- Using Predictive Analysis to Prevent the Financial Exploitation of Elders
- Three Real-World ODR Implementations
- Litigant Portals
- CourtHack Winners
- Building Better Court Websites - and Beyond
- New Models for Court Scheduling
- Electronic Courtrooms in Pierce County, Washington
There are great ideas in all of the conference sessions, and if you weren't able to attend, or would like to share them with your court, you can now do so. Congratulations to all for a great conference.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Kentucky Pretrial Services Virtual Tour
Via the December, 2016 SJI Newsletter
Hosted by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), the Pretrial Justice Center for Courts is a national collaborative initiative featuring the latest efforts to develop and improve pretrial services. Recently, Kentucky Pretrial Services launched a virtual tour aimed at fellow pretrial service providers and those stakeholders new to the Kentucky Court of Justice process.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Watch e-Courts Conference Live
You may not have been able to get yourself to Las Vegas for the SOLD OUT e-Courts 2016, but you can still participate in the conference. NCSC is broadcasting a free live stream so everyone in the court community can take it in.
Program highlights includes: Keynote speaker Gary Marchant at 11:45 am (eastern) on Monday; three examples of online dispute resolution implementations at 5:45 pm (eastern) on Monday; and how to build a better court website at 12:35 pm (eastern) on Tuesday. The complete agenda is available on the eCourts conference website at www.e-courts.org
If you see this post on time you can click here to watch the online video stream.
Friday, December 9, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Online Identity, Verified?
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During the fantastic Law and Courts in an Online World conference in Melbourne, Australia the subject of online identity verification came up. So I looked to see what services are potentially available to E-filing services and courts?
Friday, November 18, 2016
My Favorite Browser Extensions
The CTB has been delving into a lot of serious subjects lately. So I thought it was time for a little fun. In this post, I share a note about my favorite Google Chrome browser extensions.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Maryland Courts Release Law Help Mobile App
Thanks to our good friend Bonnie Hough we learned that the Maryland Judiciary has a free mobile app that provides easy access to tools and resources to aid Marylanders in using the courts and getting legal help. The Maryland Law Help app includes: self-help videos, court form finders, direct links to CALL or CHAT directly with an attorney at the Md. Courts Self-Help Center, access to the People's Law Library and court legal help pages, as well as information on law libraries, mediation and language access. The app is available for Apple and Android devices through the App Store and Google Play. For more information see: http://mdcourts.gov/legalhelp/mobileapp.html
Congratulations to the Maryland Judiciary for some great work.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
This and That in Court Technology – October, 2016
Microsoft Surface Studio |
It was a busy month in court technology. In this post we share news about judicial decision prediction system, a court rejecting e-signed documents, a new online traffic ticket mediation implementation, several Microsoft related technology announcements, and last call for the Australia legal and court technology conference registration.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Law Firms as an Electronic Filing Service Provider
We are pleased to share the following article by Mr. Dallas Powell, President of Tybera, Inc., an E-filing services company. In the article he shares their experience with law firms and government agencies connecting directly to the court's EFM (E-Filing Manager) services.
Friday, October 14, 2016
US Federal Courts PACER Fees Litigation
US Federal Courthouse Las Cruces NM |
An article posted at qz.com (Quartz) discusses the court case regarding fees for the public use of the US Federal Courts PACER system. The article notes:
“the paywall that surrounds Pacer is facing what may be its most serious test since the service emerged 28 years ago. Judge Ellen Huvelle of the US district court in Washington DC is expected to decide in the coming days whether a lawsuit accusing the government of setting Pacer fees at unlawfully high rates can proceed.
The case, which is seeking class-action certification, is being led by three nonprofits: the National Veterans Legal Service Program, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Alliance for Justice. Each group says it has downloaded documents from Pacer and incurred charges alleged to exceed the cost of providing the records. All say the setup violates the E-Government Act of 2002, which authorizes the judiciary to “prescribe reasonable fees”—and which the plaintiffs argue should limit the government to charge users “only to the extent necessary” to make the information available.”The full article is worth reading because it provides some explanation of fee waivers and, the total amount of revenue generated that supports court automation that is not provided by Congress in budget appropriation. We would also point out that there are additional issues such as costs relating to data privacy, redaction, and management that are not addressed in the article.
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