PRESIDENT’S JUDGE’S MESSAGECORNER Progress on the Court’s New Case Management System HON. JAMES T. CHOU
While I know this may not seem like the most exciting topic, I’m thankful to the Marin County Bar Association and President Rob Rosborough for giving me this opportunity to update all of you about the progress we are making in implementing our new Case Management System (CMS). For the Court, this is, indeed, very exciting news. The Marin County Superior Court has been working hard to implement our new CMS. In 2018, under Presiding Judge Paul Haakenson, the Court entered into a contract with Journal Technologies to create a new, modern, state-of-the-art CMS. Thus began the months-long process necessary to create a plan with Journal for a CMS that would serve Marin County and its litigants as best we could imagine in our court system. For this project, the Court made the strategic decision to create a CMS Management Team that consists of industry professionals, experienced Court staff from our IT division, the Court Clerk’s Office and in-court clerks, and members of Court leadership. Since its inception, the CMS Management Team has been working full-time with Journal staff to implement our CMS. Our decision to create a CMS Management Team has served us well: We have been able to timely address issues as they have arisen, which has helped greatly in
reducing delays. In fact, the success of our CMS Management Team has not gone unnoticed by other courts and several have created their own CMS Management Teams. Our CMS project began with weeks of briefings, meetings, and education about the products offered and their limitations as well as of our own systems and infrastructure; talks with the County’s Department of Information Services and Technology (IST); and the inevitable negotiations about expected timelines, costs, and ultimately implementation. It also involved additional weeks reviewing, revising, and signing contracts, which committed both Journal and the Court
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