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8 Rules of E-Filing – Complete Series

CCCT-CCTJ — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:34:42 +0000

8 Rules of E-Filing – Complete Series
This is a compilation of articles originally posted on the National Center for State Courts, Court Technology Bulletin blog from June to October, 2011.

E-Filing Articles on Modesto Bee & One Legal Blog

CCCT-CCTJ — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:52:43 +0000

Read on Stanislaus County Courthouse e-filing initiative in the following two articles:

Paperless court? Software a savior in Stanislaus County
Rosalio Ahumada, Modesto Bee, October 15, 2011

Stanislaus Court Becoming More Paperless: Could eFiling Be the Next Step?
Eric Winkler, One Legal, November 4, 2011

Communication Tools

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:46:40 +0000

The first item in the Slaw post on Six Technology Tools For Improving Client Communication made me think about new technologies and how they might be used by the courts. For example, court address webpages could include apps or QR codes to provide location information configured to be better read on personal devices. Let us know what your plans are to implement these types of technologies and for what purpose.

E-Filing Intelleader Describes CTC2011 Experience

CCCT-CCTJ — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:57:50 +0000

Andrew Clark, Intelleader of the E-Filing IWG talks about his experience at CTC2011:

“This was my fourth CTC and overall I found the experience once again very beneficial. The attendance was smaller this year, not a surprise due to budget cutbacks.

Both keynote addresses were fantastic and are worthwhile to view for anyone that wasn’t there (streamline videos of these presentations are available at www.ctc2011.org). There were less breakout sessions than past conferences, and while like other conferences the breakout sessions vary quite a bit from weak to solid, I had some good takeaways from a couple that made the time worthwhile.

The Canadians’ meeting was the most worthwhile session. It was great to get updates on JTAC, CCCT and ACCA and see how greater collaboration is happening amongst these organizations. Hearing about other initiatives across Canada was encouraging and motivating for the work in which I am involved in BC (presentations from this meeting will be posted shortly on the CCCT-CCTJ website).

I found the exhibit floor the most worthwhile time this year. I had a very focused objective looking at solutions for electronic evidence and exhibit management; in discussions with vendors, Centre for Legal and Court Technology consultants (formerly Courtroom 21) and other consultants attending the conference, I met my objective in finalizing the strategy for the BC courts.

Finally, as is the case at most conferences, the networking was a highlight. Over lunches, dinners, coffee, adhoc times between sessions, the discussions with BC colleagues, colleagues from across Canada, and other consultants, I was able to further my thinking in how we need to move forward in using technology in the courts. Patrick Cormier, Robert O’Brian and myself had an engaging discussion on e-Filing and e-Court in general and I think we solved all the problems for courts :-). We certainly came up with lots of ideas for the Intellaction Working Groups to work on!”

E-Filing Case Study Report

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:30:13 +0000

The E-Filing IWG has been working on a Case Studies Report in an effort to present information on e-filing initiatives in Canada.

Access the E-Filing Case Study Report
Please note that we will try to update this report as much as possible, so to present the latest information available from each jurisdictions. If you feel like you can help us in this task, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Court Services Online (BC)

CCCT-CCTJ — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:23:02 +0000

Court Services Online (BC)
BC’s civil electronic filing and electronic search system. Criminal and traffic file search included.

A Post in Which I Disagree with Steve Jobs (and eventually say something about court technology)

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:28:19 +0000

In IT circles, there’s a lot of discussion about the news that HP has decided to get out of the PC business. Erica Ogg at Gigaom suggests that HP decided that good profits can be made solutions at the back end of computing, but selling computing devices to end users is a business with diminishing margins. Erica’s relates this to a statement made by Steve Jobs that the PC era is over. She cites this quote from Steve Jobs’ announcement:

“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms.” Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

“PCs are going to be like trucks,” Jobs said. “They are still going to be around.” However, he said, only “one out of x people will need them.”

So how does this relate to computers? PCs used to be expensive and had to perform many functions to justify the cost. Now, I can buy an iPad and a good-enough laptop and an ereader and an internet radio for less money than I paid for my computer 10 years ago. I don’t own all those devices because I somehow “evolved,” I own them because they are cheap and convenient to specific tasks.

So in the community of people who build technology for the courts, I argue that this is not the end of the PC era, it’s the beginning of the cheap computing appliance era. We need to be prepared to offer our services to as many end user platforms as possible.

So let me ask you ask you a question: What interaction with courts do you most desire to perform through technology, and what would be your computing appliance of choice?