A Maturity Model for Court Digital Evidence: Foundational, Developing, Advanced

Budget conversations about court technology go badly when the ask is a product and well when the ask is a stage.

August 18, 2026

Efficiently Recording and Managing Microsoft Teams Meetings

Imagine this: you're managing a team meeting that’s running late. Everyone is juggling updates, and somewhere along the way, critical points get ...

August 18, 2026

Online Evidence Portal or eFiling: Where Should Exhibits Actually Be Submitted?

Courts deciding where exhibits should be submitted are choosing between an online evidence portal for court exhibits and the eFiling route they ...

August 18, 2026

Integrating an Evidence System With the Court Case Management System

Ask a court clerk where the day goes and a large share of the answer is retyping. The case number exists in the case management system. It gets typed ...

August 18, 2026

Writing Digital Evidence Requirements a Court Can Actually Procure Against

Digital evidence management procurement in courts has a recognizable failure pattern. Read enough court solicitations and it appears every time. The ...

August 18, 2026

Court Digital Evidence Management: Exhibits, Filings, and the Record

Most guidance on digital evidence was written for the people who collect it. Search for advice and you will find material about body-worn camera ...

August 18, 2026

From Filing to Docket: Automating the Intake a Clerk Does by Hand

Between a filing arriving and appearing on the docket sits a person doing four things. Reading the document to work out what it is. Deciding which ...

August 18, 2026

Self-Represented Litigants and Digital Evidence: Designing for the Unrepresented

Nearly every rule, guide, and system a court uses for evidence assumes the person submitting it is a lawyer. Self-represented litigant evidence ...

August 18, 2026

Sealing, Protective Orders, and Tiered Access to Court Records

Most systems model access as a binary. A person can see a case or they cannot. Sealed court records access control does not work that way, and the ...

August 18, 2026

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

Jury access to evidence in deliberation is a narrow technical problem wrapped around a firm legal principle. The principle is that jurors decide on ...

August 18, 2026

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

The people who produced the verbatim record are leaving faster than they can be replaced. The US stenographer workforce has fallen roughly 21 percent ...

August 18, 2026

The Appellate Digital Record: Assembling a Case for the Court Above

The appellate digital record is the only court artefact designed for someone outside the court that produced it. Everything else a trial court builds ...

August 18, 2026

Funding Court Modernization: National Budgets, Grants, and Development Finance

Court modernization funding shapes the project more than the technology does. A program funded by annual appropriations behaves differently from one ...

August 18, 2026

The Judicial Viewer: How Judges Review Digital Evidence Before and During a Hearing

Give a judge a login to the evidence system and you have solved an access problem while leaving a usability problem. A judicial viewer for digital ...

August 18, 2026

AI Tools for Judges: What Belongs on the Bench and What Does Not

Judges are already using AI. A Northwestern University study of 502 sampled federal judges found more than 60 percent of the 112 who responded had ...

August 18, 2026

AI Drafting Support and the Review Gate

AI drafting rulings in courts has moved from hypothetical to deployed faster than the governance around it. Products that distil motions and produce ...

August 18, 2026

From Search to Analysis: Working a Case File Without Reading Every Page

AI case analysis for judges is easiest to understand as a spectrum with a hard stop at one end. At the near end is search, which nobody objects to. ...

August 18, 2026

Anonymizing Judgments Before Publication

Two obligations sit on European courts at once, and they point in opposite directions.

August 18, 2026

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