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Read more →Save the Date! NAPCO Conference • Wilmington, Delaware • August 16-19, 2026
Read more →It’s spring, and with their oral arguments for the term largely over (save one unusual added session set for Thursday), U.S. Supreme Court justices are taking to the lecture circuit. Topic A seems to be the unique challenges to the rule of law presented by President Donald Trump and his administration.
Adaptive leadership is a collaborative, responsive way to lead in modern times that has special relevance for leadership teams charged with guiding and developing loosely-coupled, professionally dominated trial courts. This webinar is the second in a series of leadership methodologies, presented in concert with the National Center for State Courts, on how to constructively influence and overcome conflicts, challenges, long-held beliefs, and demands confronted by leaders in advancing new, better ways of doing things where top-down, command-and-control actions have never worked well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
