SJI recently awarded a grant (SJI-13-N-028) to the Maryland Judiciary, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), and the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) to implement the final phases of their policy and program analysis of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the state. The goals of this project are to: 1) conduct a comprehensive …
Read MoreThe SJI Board of Directors will be meeting on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM. The meeting will be held at SJI Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The purpose of this meeting is to consider grant applications for the 2nd quarter of FY 2013, and other business. All portions of this meeting are open to …
Read MoreIn November 2012, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver released a Rule One Initiative report titled, Measuring Rule 16.1: Colorado’s Simplified Procedure Experiment (SJI-12-N-127). The report is a follow-up to the IAALS 2010 publication of Surveys of the Colorado Bench & Bar on Colorado’s Simplified …
Read MoreThe National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) course, Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases, is the go-to source for information and training on a crucial, yet overlooked, aspect of domestic violence cases. This course was supported by SJI in FY 2004 and 2011 (SJI-04-N-170 and (SJI-11-E-154). Designed for judges but …
Read MoreOn November 16, 2012, the National College of Probate Judges (NCPJ) unanimously adopted a set of revised National Probate Court Standards made possible through a Technical Assistance grant provided by SJI(SJI-10-T-180) and matching support from the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging, the ACTEC Foundation, and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). This …
Read MoreEffective Fall of 2012, the California Court of Appeals, Fifth Appellate District (5DCA)began receiving electronic clerk’s transcripts for civil cases from all nine of the trial courts within its jurisdiction. With an SJI grant award (SJI-11-N-151), the Court established the Transcript Assembly Program (TAP) for all trial courts within its jurisdiction. TAP is a software …
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