Our Mission:

Working together with the Courtroom 21 Project, the Courtroom 21 Court Affiliates strive to employ useful, efficient, and economical legal technology to enhance the search for justice. Using the Courtroom 21 Project, the world center for courtroom technology, as its communication hub, the Affiliates work to minimize unnecessary duplication of effort, conserve financial and personnel resources, and promote compliance with the legal and pragmatic needs of the courts and those they serve. Through their mutual cooperative efforts, the Affiliates act to determine best practices and disseminate them among the Affiliates, and, as appropriate, other legal structures both within and outside the United States.

Courtroom 21
Court Affiliates Program

The Problem

Technology holds great promise, but it comes with a host of technical, legal, and practical questions, including:

The Solution

Reinventing the wheel is expensive and frustrating; struggling alone in the dark is rarely an efficient path the success. Collegial communication is the bright light that brings with it access to the experiences and insights of colleagues who have already been there or who are also struggling with similar concerns. The Courtroom 21 Court Affiliates Program uses the Courtroom 21 Project as the hub of a body of cooperating courts that work to get the most benefit to cost from modern courtroom and related technologies. The Courtroom 21 Project not only serves as the central administrative body for the Affiliates, but also makes available to the Affiliates its unique hard-won knowledge.

Dealing with the specialized needs of judges, administrators, and technologists, the Affiliates work to combine and share the disparate views and needs of all court professionals.