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Read more →Save the Date! NAPCO Conference • Wilmington, Delaware • August 16-19, 2026
Read more →Much to the surprise of Gordon Griller, NAPCO’s executive director, he was presented with the Association’s inaugural trial court leadership award for excellence at the recent 2023 Annual Leadership Academy and Conference in Boston.
NAPCO members have been invited to attend a special two-day summit entitled Rewriting the Sentence II summit presented by the Center for Justice and Human Dignity (CJHD) in collaboration with George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. The event will be held October 16-17, 2023, from 9 AM to 6 PM each day in the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre on the GW campus and will feature a stellar lineup of speakers, sessions, interactive roundtables, and discussions.
IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announced the release of its new report, Allied Legal Professionals: A National Framework for Program Growth, as part of Institutes’ Allied Legal Professionals project. The report offers multiple research-informed recommendations to help standardize a new tier of legal professionals across states, with the goal of increasing options for accessible and affordable legal help in civil matters involving self-representative litigants and the public in general.
There was a time when the managed review portion of e-discovery projects—or “document review,” as it’s colloquially known to those who practice it—was conducted exclusively in the dowdy back rooms of legal staffing agencies. Teams of attorneys hired on contract would sit at laminate classroom-style tables, usually shoulder to shoulder and often amid clutter, scrolling through hundreds of electronic files a day. It was understood, but still repeated on every review, that all work took place inside that room to safeguard clients’ confidential information.
On July 24th Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the first in a series of laws aimed at drastically limiting the powers of the country’s Supreme Court. Members of the opposition walked out in protest at the final reading of the law, which passed 64-0 in the 120-strong chamber.
We all know the original architecture of jury trials had its flaws. But thanks to jury trial caretakers, trial customs and practices inherited from the British have evolved, especially recently, to meet modern circumstances. This progression of reforms stems from litigation doctrines, empirical studies from the legal academy and social sciences, courageous members of bench and bar who undertake innovative pilot projects, and policymakers who introduce and enact enlightened proposals.
A lack of judges, and, in many states, a shortage of other staff needed to keep courts going, are clogging the system. Tim McGoughran, head of New Jersey’s bar association, says that pre-pandemic, most divorce cases going to trial did so within a year. Now some are entering their third or fourth year. For the past three years, the court system has operated with an average of more than 60 judicial vacancies.
