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  • The artful flu dodger

    The National Center for State Courts’ ever informative and entertaining Jur-E Bulletin brings us jury related news this week that is also related to the swine flu. How you ask?

  • Using tech to weather the financial storm

    The great Court Information Technology Officers Consortium (CITOC) held their annual meeting immediately following the 2009 Court Technology Conference in Denver and one of the powerful items on their agenda was to go around the…

  • Social networking nooses

    Twitter and LinkedIn announced today that they are joining forces in the social network world so that customers can use salient features of both providers. Oh joy !!

  • The debate over court reporters

    There are some subjects so filled with urban myths and deep seated prejudices that any rational discussion is difficult. The question of whether court reporters are “better” than electronic recording is one of these subjects.…

  • California Dreamin’

    Although many of my acquaintances seem pleased that the California Administrative Office of the Courts is getting its comeuppance by the recent press attention (http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/v-print/story/2286743.html ) to what is reported to be a $2 billion…

  • E-scary

    In the spirit of Halloween, I choose the topic of unsolicited evil email as my blog topic today. I have HAD IT with these slimy, underhanded, wicked pickpockets trying to use greed or stupidity as…

  • The disappearing jury trial

    The diminishing number of trials by jury in civil cases has become an accepted phenomenon. This week’s edition of the National Center for State Courts’ Jur-E Bulletin carried a story from the Richmond (VA) Times…

  • DUDE! Blogging is SO much work

    I have SO been channeling the Jeff Spicoli character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High lately. Sean Penn played this surfer slacker mook to a T and I guess my absence from authoring blog postings…

  • Free Pacer? - The implications (guest post)

    Today’s posting is the last of a four-part series on PACER provided by G. Thomas Sandbach, Esq, owner of Justice Technology Consulting.

  • Free PACER? – The technological approaches (guest post)

    Today’s posting is the third of a four-part series on PACER provided by G. Thomas Sandbach, Esq, owner of Justice Technology Consulting.