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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
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 artifact 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
Explainability and Audit Trails: Showing How an AI Result Was Reached
At some point after a court adopts AI-assisted processing, somebody will ask a question in a formal setting. How was this transcript produced. What ...
August 18, 2026