Caseflow Management

Caseflow Management

Caseflow Management
Sue Bell
Colorado Technical University Online
CJUS620-1003A-02
Court Services Management
Effects of Actions in Processing Cases
Phase II – Individual Project
Professor Nichols
July 23, 2010

Abstract
This paper will explain what caseflow management is. How to identify the challenges related to caseflow management. The role of technology and how it can makes the area of caseflow management more organized and readily available to all staff; specifically addressing electronic case filings. The concerns of judges and attorneys and how they relate to a court administrator or court clerk in implementing caseflow management policies. The documents involved in processing of cases and how they relate to the status of a case. There will be two specific examples of innovations that can be instituted to improve caseflow management at the trial or appellate level.

Caseflow Management
What is caseflow management?

Caseflow management is the organization, direction, planning, and controlling of the functions within the court that move a case from filing, hearing, trial, or some type of disposition. (Aikman, 2007). The National Association of Court Management’s (NACM) states, “increasingly, events that follow disposition to ensure the integrity of court orders and timely completion of post-disposition case activity are an important component of caseflow management” as described by Aikman, 2007, pg. 213.
Caseflow management is one of the costliest operating costs of the courts. The necessary technology to ensure that all documents are filed in a central data base for all staff to view and kept in a safe environment so that no documents can be deleted or destroyed; takes a lot of updated hardware and software. This must be updated continuously to keep up with technologies progress. Although, in smaller courts paper is still used for storing most of the records kept in their courts. The judges, attorneys, and court staff depend on...