The Operations Forum for 2015 has been announced, and will be held jointly with the district courts on May 19-20, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. Travel to the forum will be on Monday, May 18, with the forum covering two full days, and travel home on May 22. The Administrative Office will pay for four (4) clerk’s office staff and one (1) chambers staff from each court; judges wishing to attend will not be counted against their court total. Courts wishing to send additional attendees will be allowed to submit names to a waiting list, however, because additional rooms will be limited this year, the number of additional attendees will also be limited. Preference for those additional attendees will likely be given to larger courts, and these courts will pay for additional attendees (over the allotted 5) out of local court funds.
The forum this year will primarily be a pre-planned agenda with topics largely related to NextGen CM/ECF. The AO will be working with a sub-committee made up of CM/ECF working group and advisory group members to develop the agenda grid. Registration opened late last March and a copy of the agenda was attached to the registration site so that courts could plan who they would like to attend based on the subject areas. Because the primary focus of the forum will be NextGen CM/ECF, there has been and will continue to be a large amount of information posted, therefore it has been determined that scribes will not be used and sessions will not be recorded.
The forum this year will primarily be a pre-planned agenda with topics largely related to NextGen CM/ECF. The AO will be working with a sub-committee made up of CM/ECF working group and advisory group members to develop the agenda grid. Registration opened late last March and a copy of the agenda was attached to the registration site so that courts could plan who they would like to attend based on the subject areas. Because the primary focus of the forum will be NextGen CM/ECF, there has been and will continue to be a large amount of information posted, therefore it has been determined that scribes will not be used and sessions will not be recorded.