February 23, 2024
On February 22 the Superior Court of the District of Columbia issued Administrative Order 24-02 authorizing Evident Charge to inspect, compile, and analyze juvenile case records to validate the Court Social Services Division’s intake risk-assessment instrument and develop a tool that will inform detention and release conditions. Evident Charge may not share publicly the aggregate results of the analysis.
October 11, 2024
On October 9, approximately 100 people gathered at the D.C. Bar for its annual Practice 360º, presented by the Bar’s Practice Management Advisory Service.
October 07, 2024
The D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure invites comments on the qualifications and fitness of Judge Stephen Glickman, who is applying for reappointment to a two-year term as senior judge upon expiration of his current term on December 20.
October 02, 2024
To help ease the gap in access to justice, the D.C. Courts’ Civil Legal Regulatory Reform Task Force is investigating a new approach — allowing people who are not lawyers, but who have sufficient qualifications and training, to provide limited legal services in certain areas of the law where there are high rates of pro se litigants (such as family, housing, consumer, and probate law).
October 02, 2024
At its annual Judicial Reception on September 30, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC) welcomed Shirley Ann Higuchi as its president-elect for 2024–2025, the first Asian American to hold the position in the organization’s 153-year history.
