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Early Adopter of Technology Improved Court’s Caseflow An intensive four-day course on caseflow management for state judges at the NJC was led by a retired judge whose early adoption of technology dramatically improved caseflow in his own home state court. Effective Caseflow Management, designed for judges, administrators, and court managers, provides a rigorous examination of the components of effective caseflow management. Hon. Chad Schmucker, the NJC’s president, offered opening remarks on how a large backlog of cases (the result of poor case management) sacrifices procedural fairness, counsels’ time and clients’ money, efficient jail operations, court resources, and peace of mind for the judge and court staff.
State Supreme Court Justice Finds ‘Other Side of the Bench’ Experience Fulfilling Nevada Supreme Court Justice Mark Gibbons discussed his experience from “the other side of the bench” on May 6, 2015, during an academic course for new judges. Justice Gibbons related his experience as a juror to over 70 new judges from around the nation during NJC’s two-week General Jurisdiction course on the University of Nevada Reno campus. The class gave attending judges an opportunity to listen to and question Justice Gibbons as well as Ms. Kris Hansen and Ms. Linda Cross — who had recently served on northern Nevada juries. Gibbons called sitting on a jury “a fulfilling experience.”
Nevada’s First Court of Appeals Judges Seek The NJC Experience
New NJC Website Both User- and Mobile-Friendly
Just weeks after being sworn in as justices in
The College debuted its new website on May 5, 2015.
Nevada’s newly created Court of Appeals, Chief
Rebuilt from the ground up on a WordPress foundation,
Judge Michael Gibbons, Judge Jerome Tao and
the site adjusts its layout on-the-fly to display optimally on
Judge Abbi Silver enrolled in two courses at the
screen sizes ranging from smart phones to large desktop
NJC for professional development. The courses
monitors. The site has also been completely reorganized
involved building their overall judicial skill sets and
to help users find what they need most with a miminum of
— an integral component of those skills — judicial
clicks. It also provides a new home for stories from Case
writing. “The courses at the NJC are helpful for me,
in Point and The Judicial Edge, the NJC’s monthly email
since there were no judges to guide us on the rules
newsletter. The site was designed and built in-house by the
and procedure for the Court of Appeals,” said Judge
NJC’s graphic and web designer, Erik Flippo.
Tao. The goal of the Judicial Writing course is to achieve a style that is simple and understandable to those who read judicial documents.
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