{"id":23124,"date":"2022-03-08T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=839610"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:03:08","slug":"modernizing-court-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2022\/03\/08\/modernizing-court-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernizing Court Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-796304\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-78487962-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of American courtroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The reason we all legitimately view the 2022 ABA TECHSHOW as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2022\/03\/aba-techshow-2022-a-karmic-bookend-to-a-long-strange-trip.html\">karmic bookend<\/a>, is that time we all adjourned from Chicago, the pandemic was still a few weeks away. I remember sitting in the hotel moments before leaving for my flight chatting about how the pandemic was definitely coming but that the crisis would pass relatively quickly. I guess I was speaking in geologic time.<\/p>\n<p>But the bookend effect also altered the whole tech narrative with a heavy emphasis on the practical solutions everyone employed to make it through the various shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>I got a chance to speak with Judge Scott Schlegel of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, about the process of moving a whole court system to virtual proceedings to keep justice moving, what lasting changes have been made, and which tech solutions proved most helpful along the way.<\/p>\n<iframe border=\"0\" class=\"shortcode_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/special-reports\/2022\/03\/aba-techshow-2022-modernizing-court-technology-with-judge-scott-schlegel\/?embed\" width=\"100%\"height=\"115\"><\/iframe>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-443318\" src=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Headshot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" \/><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/joe-patrice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/\">Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:joepatrice@abovethelaw.com\">email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephpatrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0if you&#8217;re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpnexecsearch.com\/josephpatrice\">Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">The pandemic gave courts an opportunity to embrace tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":796304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[191,2306,9927,7],"class_list":["post-23124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-aba-techshow","tag-courts","tag-scott-schlegel","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modernizing Court Technology - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2022\/03\/08\/modernizing-court-technology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modernizing Court Technology - 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