NCSC assessed the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts and adjunct offices, including the Clerk of the Circuit Court, the Court Administrator, and that portion of the Sheriffs office responsible for court security and pre-trial bail functions.

This report seeks to address the need for reform of current caseflow and calendar issues in this district in Minnesota. First, numerous common problems with the system are outlined. The research conducted is used to create ten recommendations to improve both groups of problems.

This report attempts to retain as much of the current calendar structure as possible while at the same time reducing competing demands for the limited resources available in the justice system.

This report discusses what the California Administrative Office of the Court did wrong and why the Statewide Case Management Project faces significant challenges due to poor project management.

This report provides state-by-state information about case processing time standards and how courts monitor compliance with the standards.

The type of goal most commonly associated with caseflow management systems is a time standard for case disposition. Most courts have such standards governing criminal case disposition; the majority of these are statutory limits.

This report represents a three-year study of case-processing times in 18 general jurisdiction trial courts in several urban areas in the U.S. to provide a picture of the pace of criminal and civil litigation. Reports' conclusion is that delay is not inevitable and there are ways for successful caseflow management.

A caseflow management assessment of the court system in Joplin, Missouri.

An assessment of Collier County's caseflow management to help the court achieve a neutral forum for customers and effective adjudication of cases.

This report shows how demonstration courts evaluate symptoms of delay in the context of many factors, as well as explaining that delay is both a problem and a sympton of other underlying problems facing courts.

This Caseload Highlights focuses on obtaining reliable statistics for use in evaluating court performance.

This report outlines many ways in which courts can improve caseflow management including trial management, dispositions, timing, leadership and others.

An assessment of an Eastern Pennsylvania court system to obtain ideas about what can be done to improve caseflow management. Places for improvement are outlined, such as documentation and time management, and are followed by recommendations to improve each aspect.

A committed court, utilizing case-management techniques, can control the pace of litigation and improve case-processing times. To guide others who may care to travel to this point, we offer these directions in this report.

This document provides a model continuance policy for use by courts to achieve more effective caseflow management.

This brief article describes how caseflow management can successfully address issues of case volume and workload in the courts, and provides examples.

This report presents analysis of the pace of litigation and its correlates based on 1987 felony and civil case data from 39 urban trial courts.

The purpose of this report is to identify any existing or emerging consensus among Utah's jurists on the concept of time standards, to catalog relevant issues relating to the adoption of time standards in Utah, and, utilizing existing research and the experience of other states, to develop a series of recommendations for the design and implementation of case disposition time standards.

This report examines the implementation of delay reduction programs in Wayne County, Michigan and explains factors contributing to its success.

This report deals with issues in trial court administration arising from an amendment to the Arkansas constitution that merged multiple trial courts into a two-tier system with one general-jurisdiction circuit court and one limited-jurisdiction district court.

This report examines criminal and civil cases from six demonstration sites (superior court, Camden County, NJ; superior court, Pierce County, WA; district court, Ramsey County, Minnesota; Detroit Recorder's Court; and Berrien County, Michigan).

This report addresses challenges facing court operations and concerns voiced by judges and other stakeholders regarding case management practices. Thirteen recommendations are made to improve the court's calendar system and case management practices.

This document provides a model plea cut-off policy for use by courts to achieve more effective caseflow management.

This report was prepared under a February 2009 agreement between the National Center for State Courts and the Bernalillo County for a study of felony case processing in the Second Judicial District Court of New Mexico.

The study is directed at suggesting ways to institute additional efficiencies and improvements in light of continued shrinking resources while simultaneously not appreciably diminishing either the access to or the quality of justice in the Judicial District Court.

This resource applies differentiated case management principles to the drug court environment.  (KF3885.5 .R64)