Friday, November 3, 2017

Problems and Solutions for Court Videoconferencing



A BuzzFeed News article brought to our attention a report done on the use of videoconferencing in the Courts of the United Kingdom and Wales.  We share some notes from the articles and discuss our potential technology solutions and other resources below.



Thursday, October 19, 2017

Clerk Bot




Craig Van Brussel, Chief Technology Officer in the First Judicial District of Florida shared news about their testing of “Robotic Process Automation” that was developed by Computing Systems Innovations (CSI) in Orlando.  More below:




Thursday, October 12, 2017

Thursday, October 5, 2017

This and That in Court Technology – October, 2017



News from the California courts, digital recording technology advances, smartphone language interpretation, the NCRA, Social Security Number replacement, Mississippi court rules, a conference in New Zealand and a useful Dutch Legal Technology newsletter/blog, and a good CTC 2017 summary.


Friday, September 29, 2017

LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Specification 5.0 Draft Announced



In the first major update since 2013, the Oasis-Open LegalXML Electronic Court Filing (ECF) Technical Committee has announced version 5 for sixty-day public review.  Since the standard is the most widely used electronic filing standard, this is a significant advancement. 

More below…


Thursday, September 21, 2017

A Special Court Technology Procurement Workshop




A special 1 1/2 day Technology Procurement Workshop for Court Leaders and Technology Staff, Vendors, and Consultants will be presented in Phoenix, Arizona, November 7-8, 2017 at the Trial Court Education Center, Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County.

More below...


Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The 2017 McMillan Scholarship Award Winner



Jose Lezcano and Jim McMillan


Jose Lezcano, the Judicial Branch IT Director in Puerto Rico was honored with the McMillan Scholarship at the CTC 2017 Conference for his technology leadership.  More below:







Friday, September 15, 2017

CTC 2017 – a Milestone Conference



The conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah from September 12-14, 2017 had many significant events and presentations.  We will start the list in this post with more to come in the very near future.