Events Calendar

Month: February 2025

Webinar: Strategies for Effective Criminal Case Management

February 5th, 2025

Courts nationwide face challenges with adjudicating criminal cases in a timely manner that ensures due process and procedural fairness for defendants, victims, and their families, while maintaining public trust and confidence in the courts.

In this webinar, panelists from three jurisdictions will discuss their court’s use of scheduling orders and continuance policies to effectively manage criminal cases and the impact these case management tools have had on their criminal caseloads.

Moderators:

• DeShield Greene, Senior Court Management Consultant, NCSC
• Kelly Roberts Freeman, Principal Court Research Associate, NCSC

Panelists:

• Toria Finch, Presiding Judge, Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 9, Houston, Texas
• Robin Schmidt, Presiding Judge of the Northwest Judicial District, North Dakota
• Fred Hendrickson, Senior Administrative Manager, Criminal Division, 4th Judicial District, Hennepin County, Minnesota
• Kelly Hutton, Court Administrator, Northeast and Northeast Central Judicial Districts, North Dakota

Register today.

For more information, email Conor Geiger.

National Association for Court Management (NACM) Midyear Conference

February 9th, 2025

NACM will host its midyear conference from February 9 to February 11 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The theme of the conference is Measuring and Taking Action on Public Trust and Confidence.

For more information, visit NACM’s website or contact Erin Carr.

Webinar: Data Governance - Analytic Tools (Part 2)

February 13th, 2025

Join us for the Data Dives Webinar Series, where we explore emerging data trends and topics shaping state courts today.

In this session, we will discuss record linkage. Record linkage is an innovative solution to a common data governance challenge: finding and removing duplicate entries across various data sources.

This webinar explores applications and models for record linkage and how state courts can approach this common challenge and implement solutions.

Moderators:

• Andre Assumpcao | Data Scientist, NCSC
• Miriam Hamilton | Senior Court Research Analyst, NCSC

Panelist:

• Sriram Jayarama | Manager, Enterprise Data Services, Information Services Division, Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts

Register today.

For more information, email Lanie Snyder.

Webinar: Tech for All - A Technical Deep Dive into AI-Powered Justice Chatbots

February 19th, 2025

This webinar, an extension of the Tech for All: Applications of AI to Increase Access to Justice course, goes behind the scenes to see how AI-powered chatbots have been developed for court users.

Join us as we examine the use of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to improve accuracy and relevance of responses, Large Language Model (LLM) engineering platforms, and how to use AI to monitor AI.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Explain the use of RAG to improve chatbot responses.
• Describe methods for training chatbots with legal knowledge and court-specific information.
• Identify potential technical challenges in chatbot development for courts and discuss strategies to address these issues.

Moderator:

• Diane Robinson, Principal Court Research Associate, NCSC

Speakers:

• Drew Jackson, Digital and Content Lead, People’s Law School
• Tom Martin, Founder and CEO, LawDroid
• Chris McGrath, Consultant and Founder, Tangowork
• Jeannie Sato, Director, Access to Justice, Alaska Courts

Register today.

For more information, email Adalie Kim.