The Portable Courtroom

The Portable Courtroom
The Case for Paperless Courtrooms

The Cost of Paper
Environmental
Space
Inefficiency
Duplication
Search
Evidence Integrity
Money
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Archive
Access to justice
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Issues
Lawyers’ Inherent Conflict of Interest
Printing = profit centers
Billable hours
Efficiency
Education
Courtrooms not designed for technologies
Judges’
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computer literacy
IT Support

Judges’ responsabilities?
Maintainaccess to justice
Reducecosts
Learn to judge in a paperlessenvironment
Require technologies to beused in the courtroom
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- Justice B.T.Granger, The Future isNow, CBA Annualconference, Quebec, July 23, 2008

Lawyers’ Obligations?
Maintainaccess to justice
Reducecosts
Learn to judge in a paperlessenvironment
Require technologies to beused in the courtroom
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Why Technologies
Reduce
Delays
Costs
Improve
Access to justice
Image of justice
Efficiency
Enhance persuasiveness
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The Portable Courtroom
Justice B.T. Granger, Taking the next step and why you should, Computer Educational Skills Training Seminar, National Judicial Institute, Halifax, December 11-13, 2007
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DIY Courtroom
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DIY Courtroom
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DIY Courtroom
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DIY Courtroom
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Issues for lawyers
Whichjudge has been assigned
For or against technologies
Equipement
Whichcourtroom
What type of case
Presentation vs e-evidence
When to be techno
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New requirements
Collaboration
Lawyers
Judge
Clerks
Set-up time
Methodology
Standards
Education
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Resources
ABA LTRC: Litigation and Courtroom Technology Info Center
Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge’s Guide to Pretrial and Trial [PDF]
Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Lawyer's Guide to Pretrial and Trial
Using Litigation Support Software in the Courtroom by Justice B.T.Granger [PDF]
ABA TECHSHOW
LegalIT, Canada’s Premier Conference on Law and IT
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April 20 and 21st, 2009
Montreal

Questions?
Dominic Jaar
djaar@ledjit.com514.212.9348www.ledjit.com

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