National Association for Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers

NAPCO Member Survey and Strategic Campaign

Your NAPCO Board and the Strategic Planning Committee are sending you a survey to ensure that your perspective and needs are captured in NAPCO’s plans for the future. We respectfully ask you to consider how NAPCO can serve YOU as a court leader and support YOUR COURTS as an educational and advocacy organization. Your answers will provide critical guidance to the organization as it prepares its next Strategic Campaign.

Politicization: Arizona vice chief justice discusses innovation, retention elections

Bold. Innovative. Visionary. At a time when many courts are losing the battle to provide access to justice, especially in low-income communities, the Arizona Supreme Court has brought fresh ideas to bridge the justice gap.

ABA, more than 50 bar associations condemn “government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice”

More than 50 state, local and specialty bar associations have joined with the ABA to “defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession.” A March 26 statement released by the groups does not mention President Donald Trump, but it follows his punitive attacks on disfavored law firms and calls to impeach judges he perceives as antagonistic.

The Importance of Repetition by Leaders in the Workplace

If you had to choose the one indispensable power of a leader, which would you pick? Would it be probing intelligence? Boundless energy? Or perhaps just being lucky? One ability may not come to mind for many but really should. For if there is a talent that every leader needs to master, it’s the ability to say the same thing over and over and over again without seeming bored.

Renowned Leadership Advice: A Webinar Series for Court Leaders

Many seasoned leaders over the years have looked to studies, writings, and curricula developed by colleges, consultancies and organizational experts to help them improve their skills in leading loosely-coupled, professionally-dominated enterprises such as courts, hospitals, universities, research institutes and think-tanks. Top-down, command-and-control approaches have never proven to be effective or lasting strategies for such organizations.

WEBINAR: Leading Major Change in Trial Courts

Over the years, many seasoned presiding judges, court executives and their leadership teams have looked to studies, writings, and curricula developed by colleges, consultancies and experts to help them improve their skills in leading trial courts as loosely-coupled, professionally-dominated organizations. Top down, command and control approaches don’t tend to work very well.

I Am a Judge. Should I Use AI to Do My Job? Which AI Tools Should I Use?

Since the publication of my technical article “My ‘Hallucinating Experience with ChatGPT’”, I have struggled with the extent to which I should or should not be using artificial intelligence (AI) to perform my judicial duties. It seems that other judicial officers have engaged in similar soul-searching.