Thursday, April 22, 2010

Modernize with technology

Hogwash:

LOS ANGELES – The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.

The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 courtrooms and another 50 will be shut down come September unless something is done to find more money. The judge who presides over the system predicts chaos and an unprecedented logjam of civil and family law cases in the worst-case scenario.

Legal goods are lightweight, easy to gain efficiencies by adopting technology. The courts are too expensive because they rely too much on status definitions, and less on information transfer. Judges are wed to antiquated courtrooms like teachers wed to antiquated classrooms.

Keep firing judges and clerks until they start to get the picture.

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