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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sealing, Protective Orders, and Tiered Access to Court Records

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 ...

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

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 ...

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

AI Drafting Support and the Review Gate

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 ...

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

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. ...

Anonymizing Judgments Before Publication

Anonymizing Judgments Before Publication

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

Statewide and National Digital Evidence Repositories: What It Takes to Run One

Statewide and National Digital Evidence Repositories: What It Takes to Run One

A county evidence system has one owner. A statewide repository has several, none of whom report to each other, and that single structural difference ...

The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List

The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List

Police manage evidence. Courts manage exhibits. The difference between those two sentences is the act of admission, and it is the reason digital ...

Data Ownership, Portability, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-In in Court Systems

Data Ownership, Portability, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-In in Court Systems

The court owns its record. Everyone agrees with that sentence, and it settles almost nothing about court data portability or vendor lock-in.

Remote and Hybrid Hearings: Evidence, the Record, and Public Access

Remote and Hybrid Hearings: Evidence, the Record, and Public Access

Courts adopted remote hearings under emergency conditions and then discovered they were not going back. Judges who moved to remote appearances have ...

Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record

Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record

Courts worrying about presenting evidence in a virtual hearing usually frame it as a conferencing problem. It rarely is. Teams, Zoom, and Webex all ...

Language Access in the Courts: Transcription and Translation Obligations

Language Access in the Courts: Transcription and Translation Obligations

A court has to be understood by the people appearing in front of it, and it has to produce an accurate record of what was said. When a hearing runs ...

Procuring Court Technology Through International Frameworks

Procuring Court Technology Through International Frameworks

A judiciary running a donor-funded modernization program frequently does not sign the contract for the technology it will use. Court technology ...

Measuring Court Performance: Backlog, Adjournments, and Time to Disposition

Measuring Court Performance: Backlog, Adjournments, and Time to Disposition

Court performance backlog measurement is usually treated as a reporting obligation attached to the end of a program. The judiciaries that have ...