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The National Center for State Courts
300 Newport Avenue · Williamsburg, Virginia  23185

Contact:
Lorri Montgomery
Communications Manager
The National Center for State Courts
757.259.1525 or lmontgomery@ncsc.dni.us 

Kelli Sager Joins
 Lawyers Committee of National Court Reform Organization

Williamsburg, VA (March 8, 2004) – Kelli Sager, partner with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, has joined the National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee, which involves prominent practicing attorneys in the National Center’s work and programs. Committee members serve in a leadership role with a commitment to support the National Center’s mission, to actively participate in outreach to the bar and the legal community, and to encourage support for the National Center’s programs and initiatives. Inaugural meetings were held recently in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco in conjunction with the midyear meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices. 

Sager’s practice focus is on communications, media, intellectual property and entertainment law. She represents television, radio, motion picture, and newspaper clients as well as authors, producers and publishers. Her clients include the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and MTV Networks. The National Law Journal included Sager in the top 50 women litigators in the country in 2001.

For the past three years, Sager has served on the National Center’s advisory committee that is working to develop the “Guidelines for Policy Development by State Courts” to create a public access policy on public access to court records.

The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a non-profit court reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation’s state courts. The National Center also is taking the lead on several key issues facing the justice system. For example, it has established a major civil justice initiative, a multi-year project that is examining best practices in civil case management and how complex litigation procedures can be improved. Other national initiatives being driven by the National Center include judicial selection reform and increasing citizen participation in jury service.

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