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Bye, Bye, Blankie
I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a session on Court Document Retention in Michigan with Kevin Bowling, Court Administrator for Ottawa County Circuit Court in Michigan. I played Sancho...
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Court Document Retention
In the interest of full disclosure, let me say, up front, that I believe both ends of the Court Document Retention discussion will be laid to rest and ultimately forgotten over the next five to 10...
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In Praise of Signatures
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I have been a vocal advocate of electronic signatures for a long time; and I will not now unsay a word of my advocacy. Most statutes, rules and orders are silent or...
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Missing the Starting Gun
“And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run; You missed the starting gun.” Time, Pink Floyd, from Dark Side of the Moon On hearing the other day of a …...
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The Fact Is, It’s a Better Record
You know the monkeys are winning when even the dinosaurs start betting on and rooting for them. An interesting debate between those involved in the medical field and those involved in the legal field...
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A Brief Memo from the Future
Like Billy Pilgrim, in Kurt Vonnegutt’s Slaughterhouse Five, I sometimes become “unstuck in time.” So it was that I recently came across an article I wrote in early 2019. Oops, that’s five years from...
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Armor Up: Electronic Court Tools for Judges
Recently I saw an exhibit of a fully equipped Roman Legionnaire from the early Roman Empire. All that stuff – armor, sword, shield, spear – sure looked heavy. Interesting enough in itself; but later...
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Funding eFiling: Calculating the Cost
This is the conclusion of Part 3 of 10 in the eFiling Blog Series. Check out the first half of Part 3 here. Handling of indigents in an eFiling system will be profoundly affected by the chosen funding...
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Data-Centric eFiling
This is Part 6 of 10 in the eFiling Blog Series, check out Part 5 here. It’s easy to think of the key differentiating feature between traditional, paper document filing and eFiling as relating...
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