Course
Overview:
City, municipal, district, and justice of the peace courts are where most people experience the justice system firsthand. This new course for leadership judges, court managers, and senior court staff will explore basic and innovative ways to operate and lead limited jurisdiction courts more effectively.
Topics to be addressed include:
- Streamlined caseflow techniques
- New technology solutions for data entry and file management
- Better case scheduling practices
- Managing short trials more productively
- Smarter use of administrative hearings
- Improved customer service
- Efficient ways to process non-contested traffic and parking violations
- Applying CourTools as performance measures
- Handling domestic violence matters more responsibly
- Instituting successful problem-solving and community-based courts
- Increasing compliance with court monetary orders- debt collection
- Enhancing judicial independence wisely and diplomatically, and
- Effectively conducting business with reduced resources.
Gordon Griller, Director of Trial Court Leadership Programs for the National Center for State Courts will lead and coordinate the seminar, assisted by faculty from the Phoenix Municipal Court Chief Judge Roxanne Song-Ong and Executive Administrator Jim Scorza, Tacoma Municipal Court Administrator Yvonne Pettus, and Scottsdale City Court Administrator Janet Cornell.
Hotel Information :
Hosted by the Phoenix Municipal Court, Superior Court of Arizona and the Supreme Court of Arizona. The seminar will be held at the Maricopa County Trial Court Education Center, 620 West Jackson Street Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. This seminar is limited to 40 participants.
Participants will be responsible for arranging their own personal lodging and transportation.
Course Number: ICM08C-MLJC |
