http://www.legalpracticepro.com/move-to-paperless-courts-advancing/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.legalpracticepro.com/move-to-paperless-courts-advancing/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 Ron Smith Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:42:29 +0000 http://www.legalpracticepro.com/uncategorized/move-to-paperless-courts-advancing/#comment-1119 Judge Bullock's limited actions court system in Shawnee County is an excellent one. It was first developed to control the paper flood in Chapter 61 claims. That gears it towards the collection bar, but at the time I was there, using this system, there were ongoing efforts to integrate the domestic and criminal dockets into the system. The key is an activist judge who holds people's feet to the fire to solve the myriad of problems that will occur in making major changes, and a receptive local bar that will embrace change and work out the bugs. In SN county's system, you can still file paper pleadings. Judge Bullock has offered the system to any judicial district in Kansas that wants to adopt it. It certainly lends itself to regionalization, e.g., one processing center for all pleadings and cases filed in, say, all the counties in four or five western Kansas judicial districts. Over time, the savings is in not having to add additional clerks in the courthouses and instead, one can concentrate on putting money where it is more needed, e.g. court services officers. Judge Bullock’s limited actions court system in Shawnee County is an excellent one. It was first developed to control the paper flood in Chapter 61 claims. That gears it towards the collection bar, but at the time I was there, using this system, there were ongoing efforts to integrate the domestic and criminal dockets into the system. The key is an activist judge who holds people’s feet to the fire to solve the myriad of problems that will occur in making major changes, and a receptive local bar that will embrace change and work out the bugs. In SN county’s system, you can still file paper pleadings.
Judge Bullock has offered the system to any judicial district in Kansas that wants to adopt it. It certainly lends itself to regionalization, e.g., one processing center for all pleadings and cases filed in, say, all the counties in four or five western Kansas judicial districts. Over time, the savings is in not having to add additional clerks in the courthouses and instead, one can concentrate on putting money where it is more needed, e.g. court services officers.

]]> http://www.legalpracticepro.com/move-to-paperless-courts-advancing/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 Mike Adams Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:13:05 +0000 http://www.legalpracticepro.com/uncategorized/move-to-paperless-courts-advancing/#comment-1118 Parts of Colorado moved fairly quickly with implementing efiling. It is nice having until 11:59 p.m. on a deadline date to electronically file a matter in a case. Up until recently we have needed to keep original (paper) copies of our signed court documents. Beginning in January, though, our court rules change and we will be able to retain only scanned copies of our originals. The paperless office is (almost) here! This really makes working from a home office much easier. Parts of Colorado moved fairly quickly with implementing efiling. It is nice having until 11:59 p.m. on a deadline date to electronically file a matter in a case. Up until recently we have needed to keep original (paper) copies of our signed court documents. Beginning in January, though, our court rules change and we will be able to retain only scanned copies of our originals. The paperless office is (almost) here! This really makes working from a home office much easier.

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