Save the Date! NAPCO Conference • Kansas City • August 22-25, 2027
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Read more →Sebastian “Seb” Matta turned 19 years old in July, 2026, the day he won the Democratic primary for Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court. Matta participated in speech and debate for three years and entered four national tournaments while attending Thunderbird High School in Phoenix. The experience piqued his interest in politics.
The 2027 NAPCO Trial Court Leadership Academy and Conference will be held in Kansas City, Kansas, August 22-25, 2027. More details coming soon.
Isn’t it a virtue to display steadfast allegiance to something or someone other than oneself? After all, loyalty has been celebrated as a virtue across many cultures for millennia. As economic headwinds and a tough job market appear to be empowering more authoritarian styles of leadership, it’s a good time to look more closely at loyalty. We must ask whether good leaders can fairly demand it of their followers and whether it’s an idea that modern management should finally discard.
The question of how to regulate artificial intelligence has acquainted strange bedfellows, but few odder than Jensen Huang, the billionaire boss of Nvidia, and Lina Khan, a left-wing trustbuster who served as Joe Biden’s chair of the Federal Trade Commission. As debate over restraining large language models becomes more frenzied, both Mr. Huang and MS Khan maintain that rules already on the books can deal with most risks. Existing law is sufficient, Mr. Huang maintained recently, “Apply it.”
Most leadership advice is written for beginnings — how to launch initiatives, build momentum, scale ideas, and manage new projects. Far less attention is given to the work of ending something well. Yet endings are everywhere in organizational life. Ending well does not mean making everyone feel good about the decision. Some endings are painful or contested. But leaders can still shape how people experience them. The following practices can help.
For judges in the judicial branch, whether federal or state, ethics issues arise in indirect ways. This article focuses on how to avoid adhere to fundamental Rule of Law concepts that include acknowledging the proper scope of law enforcement in a courthouse.
I worry that the many celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence will commemorate the historical moment but fail to appreciate the enduring meaning of the extraordinary statement approved on July 4, 1776. A reading of the Declaration of Independence reveals its ongoing relevance.
