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A product such as the Trends Report would be
impossible without the contributions of a diverse and
talented team. The Knowledge
and Information Services Office gratefully acknowledges
the efforts of the
staff and interns who helped develop concepts from the
environmental scan and later wrote or
solicited articles for the final report. Our gratitude
also extends to those National Center staff and state
court constituents who contributed information that was
used in writing many of the articles. We
are especially indebted to Glenn Hiemstra of
Futurist.com for his advice and insight with respect
to futures research and for
his designs for and contributions to An
Environmental Scan for the State Courts,
2002, from which
the topics for this edition of the Trends Report were
selected and developed.
No acknowledgment would be complete without an
expression of thanks for the editorial and
production assistance provided by the National Center’s
Communications Office, particularly Chuck
Campbell, or for the resource support supplied by senior
managers. The disparate articles that
comprise the online version of this edition could not
have been linked effectively without the assistance
of the National Center’s Web Development staff.
Special thanks also go to Carol Flango, the director of
the Knowledge and Information Services Office, for her
backing of the separate Web and
print concepts for this year’s edition and for her
patience and guidance throughout the production
process. Finally, the Knowledge and Information Services
Office wishes to acknowledge the
contribution of the State Justice Institute; although
the Institute did not fund this edition, its financial
support for the environmental scanning project and for
past editions of the Trends Report, as
well as its long commitment to futures and strategic
planning efforts in state courts, helped make this
publication possible.
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