What Does Court Administration Do?
Court Administration staff conducts and manages the daily administrative, technical, and support operations of the court and the processing of cases. What does that mean? Well, for example… • we answer hundreds of telephone calls and in-person questions per day, give out information on available court forms to a steady stream of visitors to court, and keep track of what often seems like a blizzard of new laws and procedures every year. • we process paperwork, court filings, letters, motions, and notices • we organize, retrieve, store, preserve, and copy the files, paperwork, and records of court proceedings, for some cases stretching back many years • we set cases on the court’s calendars, keep the workflow organized, help the judges with whatever they need, arrange for foreign language interpreters, call jurors for jury duty, issue warrants, manage fine collections and court finances, post calendars, and generally keep the cases organized and moving. Court administration is a very f
