This plan was carefully crafted based on guidance received from federal and state health officials, information obtained from the National Center for State Courts, and examples found in other jurisdictions. Read the full story from WVVA.

The group is slated to include experts on disaster response, health law, insurance, and the legal needs of families, according to the ABA announcement. Representatives from the National Center for State Courts, the National Association of Bar Executives and the National Conference of Bar Presidents will participate. Read the full story from Law 360.

Such precautions are certain to put pressure on the U.S. legal system. About 150,000 criminal and civil trials occur each year across state and federal courts, according to the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts. Trials that use jurors, who are selected from a larger pool of area residents summoned to courthouses, will be particularly affected. Read the full story from Advisor Hub.

“It’s a huge step in the right direction,” said Kathryn Holt, a senior court research analyst for the National Center for State Courts. From a national perspective, Holt said, she has been “very impressed” with Pennsylvania’s progress. Read the full story from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Such precautions are certain to put great pressure on the U.S. legal system. About 150,000 criminal and civil trials occur each year across state and federal courts, according to the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts. Trials that use jurors, who are selected from a larger pool summoned to attend selections, will be particularly affected. Read the full story from Claims Journal.

While a variety of approaches can be taken to maintain access, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) conducted a Facebook preparedness session on March 5 and the utility of telephonic and remote appearances was specifically noted. Read the full story from Yahoo! Finance.

About 150,000 criminal and civil trials occur each year across state and federal courts, according to the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts. While not all trials use juries, those that do are culled from dozens of citizens summoned randomly to the courthouse to serve for a day, a week or longer. That system will be pressured by the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Read the full story from Herald-Mail Media.

About 150,000 criminal and civil trials occur each year across state and federal courts, according to the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts. While not all trials use juries, those that do are culled from dozens of citizens summoned randomly to the courthouse to serve for a day, a week or longer. That system will be pressured by the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Read the full story from Bloomberg Law.

The National Center for State Courts is urging judiciaries around the country to brush up on their public health laws and to prepare. It's touting a 2016 handbook meant as a template for state court systems as they devise both operational plans and ways to bring judges up to date on arcane quarantine laws that may date back centuries. Read the full story from Law 360.

Even if California’s justices throw up a roadblock, high courts elsewhere in the country, which have the ultimate authority on regulating legal practice in each state, are attuned to the issue. Laurel Terry, a professor at the Penn State University Dickinson Law School, says conversations have been going on for several years at the National Center for State Courts and the Conference of Chief Justices. Read the full story from Law.com.

Last year resulted in some questionable judicial behavior. The National Center for State Courts Center for Judicial Ethics released a roundup of some of the worst behavior in its 2019 Judicial Conduct Report. Read the full story from the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Maine is ranked 51st among the states and the District of Columbia in pay for general jurisdiction judges – those who handle most of the legal cases in state district and superior courts – with an average salary of $113,000 a year when adjusted for the local cost-of-living index, according to a report by the National Center for State Courts. The median pay nationally for that category is $155,000, and Tennessee pays the most, an average of $194,877. Read the full story from Sun Journal.

A study by the National Center for State Courts followed cases tried in 2005. The study followed their appeals in state courts from 2005 through 2010. It showed that 95% of civil appeals at the state level were resolved in 546 days and 95% of criminal cases were disposed in 818 days. Read the full story from the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Washington County is working on a study of it’s criminal justice system to reduce crowding in the jail. The county has hired the National Center for State Courts to do the study, Sheriff Tim Helder said Wednesday staff from the center have been at the Sheriff’s Office and jail interviewing his staff in the past week. A report from the Center is expected by June, according to county officials. Read the full story from Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

In 2018, the National Center for State Courts selected the Dougherty County Law Library as a pilot legal self-help project, one of seven states chosen to advance the goal of providing civil justice for all. Read the full story from GPB.

New Jersey is in step with other state courts around the nation that are experiencing a decline in the number of cases. The National Center for State Courts has documented a “pervasive and persistent” decline in caseloads in state courts nationwide that started in 2008. Read the full story from Law.com.

Elected officials have no business attacking citizens for performing their civic duty. The jury system is rooted in English common law and enshrined in both Article III and the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution; it is fundamental to the American system of justice. All of us need to be concerned when this process is attacked. More than 1.5 million Americans are impaneled on juries every year, according to the National Center for State Courts. Read the full story from the Washington Post.

Organizations, such as the National Center for State Courts, appear to be taking note. The group publishes a Judicial Stress Resource Guide that addresses the link between budget cuts and low morale among court employees; a connection between obesity and judicial stress; burnout, emotional labor; misconduct among jurists; substance abuse; personal strain and other issues. Read the full story from Law.com.

This year, the state ranked 48 out of 55 in pay among supreme courts and district courts in the nation and its territories, according to a study published in January by the National Center for State Courts. New Mexico is also the lowest by far in the Mountain Region, where Colorado and Utah are near the top. Read the full story from the Santa Fe Reporter.

One event he attended in Washington D.C. was an awards ceremony for 4th Judicial District Circuit Court Judge Duane Slone, who was named the 2019 recipient of the National Center for State Courts’ prestigious William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. Judge Slone was recognized for his pioneering efforts to combat addiction through innovative strategies like the Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy docket, which has seen 110 neonatal abstinence syndrome-free births by program participants in recent years. Read the full story from The Chagganoogan.

According to a study by the nonprofit National Center for State Courts, New Mexico could use some 21 more district judges to handle the workload. Read the full story from the Santa Fe New Mexican.

"There is a need for 20.9 judges to handle the increasingly complex and demand workload of district courts across New Mexico, according to a study by the National Center for State Courts," Massey pointed out. Lawmakers last created new judges in 2014. Read the full story from Ruidoso news.

Bill Raftery, a senior analyst at the National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Williamsburg, Va., cautioned that there are no model courts, and that California's and Arizona's court structures differ from Cook's in key ways. What matters more is criminal justice stakeholders all rowing in the same direction. "If somebody with the best of intentions comes in and tries real hard, you still might not get full access to justice, but you're in a much better circumstance if everyone's going in trying." Read the full story in Crain's Chicago Business.

The chief justice also briefly touched on a National Center for State Courts report on the trial court’s calendar system and case flow proposals that he said has been a “source of great consternation” among judges. Read the full story from The Guam Daily Post.

As a board member for the National Center for State Courts, Mr. Battiste said that working closely with judges nationwide provided a perspective into the challenges faced by the Third Branch. Read the full story from Yahoo! Finance.

Mandatory judicial retirement ages are a fraught subject nationally, with opponents arguing that they are unfair, since the two other branches of government don’t face similar limitations, according to William E. Raftery, a senior analyst at the National Center for State Courts. Proponents counter that age caps create opportunities for younger lawyers to make their mark. Read the full story from the Providence Journal.

The National Center for State Courts had already done a study to evaluate Judge Bennett’s jury instruction, because there was a concern that it might anger jurors and have a reverse, negative impact. They attempted to measure its efficacy in a simulated environment, not with an actual jury, but the results were inconclusive. Judge Bennett took that as a good sign—no harm, no foul. Read the full story from D Magazine.

This request is part of a five-year plan to bring in new judges to address the judicial branch's workload, which is currently 30 judges short of where it should be, according to a workload formula by the National Center for State Courts. Read the full story from the Des Moines Register.

The chief judicial officers and administrators of all six courts were briefed Friday and were provided with copies of or a link to an emergency response “benchbook” from the National Center for State Courts and the State Justice Institute, which provides guidance on court operations, Berke said. Read the full story from the Providence Journal.