At both the state and federal levels, our judicial system has been impacted by three significant developments. First, for a number of reasons, most importantly economic, there is an inadequate number of sitting judges dealing with an ever-increasing caseload. Second, there is a vast increase of complex factual issues related to advancing technologies before the courts. Finally, the transformation of records from hard copy to digital format has altered the traditional notions of discovery.
The result of those forces has been a proliferation of issues that are beyond the scope of traditional courts, particularly in the following areas...
Originally published in the Daily Journal on June 28, 2013.
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