Court Management Consultants
SERVICES
How we help your business or your court
For Courts, we can help re-design key court performance measures and indices to coincide with CourtTools.org. We also provide a full suite of services for court management including strategic planning, expenditure planning forecasting, legislative analysis, planning for operational changes and focus group studies.
Improving Inter office Cooperation and Coordination and Delivery of Services through:
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Interagency strategic planning – including I.T., budgeting, management coordination
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Expenditure Planning Forecasting and Legislative Analysis – for costing out legislative changes
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Designing, implementing and analyzing key milestones and benchmarks for all program planning, court projects (e.g guardianship monitoring, fine collection, custody visitation mediation, treatment courts, senior judges, appellate mediation)
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Conducting focus groups and surveys of clientele – to obtain key indices for Court Management performance standards- both internal and external
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How to implement and facilitating the implementation of changes – without bureaucratic interference.
Increase Efficacy and Cost Effective Funding through 10 CourTools Performance Measures:
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Implemeting Cour Tools (All 10 Performances Measures or for individual courts (civil, criminal, juvenile, family courts, etc)
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Jury Management – 1 day, 1 trial systems; Summary Jury Trials.
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Evaluating program efficiency and effectiveness such as ADR systems and Case Management Systems like fast, business and civil tracks, ADR system including Arbitration, Mediation, Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE), Summary Jury trials to resolve 80% of Civil cases. Mandatory Custody Visitation Mediation for Family cases (80% Settlement rates)
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Reengineering operations for data management, performance evaluations,
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Optimizing staffing levels and deployment
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Designing and delivering in person and on-line training materials
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Creating public service materials
Augment Agency Resources with cost effective budgetary systems
(10 Court Core Competencies):
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Helping implement cost saving ADR systems, new I.T. systems
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Implementing principles and practices of budget development and administration as outlined by the National Association for Court Management (NACM) in their Ten Court Core Competencies
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Strategizing the effective use of existing resources
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Creating successful budget and grant requests
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Legislative advocacy
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Budget training
(Weighted Caseloads), Fair Labor agreements:
- Developing human resources cross training so staff can replace each other in absences-illness, vacation, training
- Developing from this a reward based system based on cross training.
- Supervisory development and lead hand development stemming from cross-training and train the trainers.
- Coaching managers for success – how to develop the best managers possible and test them in neutral Performance measures
- Weighted Caseload Workload analysis for all staff positions and supervisors.
- Creating Cross-training programs, Supervisory development
- Negotiating fair and firm labor agreements bases on neutral weighted caseloads and workload analysis
Projects Completed – Court Improvements
Ontario Canada Court Improvements – 1988-1990
1988-1989 – Ministry of the Attorney General – Courts Administration – Program Planning Committees and Two Regional Directors offices
- Victims of Crime Implementation – Wrote first Victim Impact Statement – Implemented Victim Fine Surchage ($982m per year) + increased restitution.
- Served on Expenditure Planning Forecast Committee (EPF) for $500 M Court budget – 3 year cost estimates for all federal and provincial legislation for all 3 Justice Portfolio Ministries (Solicitor General, AG, Corrections)
- Served on Criminal Code Concordance committee – redid numbering for entire Criminal Code.
- 1989-1990 – Ministry of the Attorney General Courts Administration – Regional Directors Office and field work.
- Interned in every single Court Office doing every single Court Function at Deputy Court Administrator level. Made over 40 recommendations for Court improvements
- 1989-Peel Region – Robert Cameron Capital Plan for New 3 Courtroom POA courts accepted by Treasury Board Secretariat and Cabinet. Led to construction of facility 1 mile from 141 Clarence Street Main Courthouse
- Regional Directors Offices –Capital Projects for 2 New Courthouses – Hamilton and Whitby. Renovations of Newmarket Courthouse (additional floor added)
NC Court Improvements – 1992-1995
First Assistant Trial Court Administrator – North Carolina-26th Judicial District, Charlotte/Mecklenburg, N.C.
–Civil/Family Case system and statistics revealing it is taking 3 years for cases to resolve. Implementation of full ADR-2-track case management system to resolve case faster, lesst costly – saved local litigants $5 million per year.
Worked with Bench/Bar/CLE/Clerks office to implement full ADR-2 Track system – 80% resolution rates. District Court Arbitration, Superior Court choices for litigants – Arbitration, Mediation, Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE), Summary Jury Trials. + 2 tracks (simple, fast) for Superior Court Cases. Mandatory/Non-binding. Scheduled all ADR proceedings and maintained roster for all ADR neutrals and CLE training.
-Implemented Custody Visitation Mediation Program with 3 Mediators for all non monetary custody and visitation issues – 80% settlement resolution rate.
-Implemented Felony Drug Court with 80% reduction in recividism – concomittant reduction in felonies in entire county. $180g per year savings in incarceration and jail costs realized.
Florida County Court Mediator – June, 2022 to Present.
Florida Court Improvements – 1999-2001
Supreme Court of Florida – Office of State Courts Administrator – Tallahassee, Fl Strategic Planning
-Part of Professional staff for Judicial Management Committees – Implemented new statewide Guardianship Monitoring Program to stop elder abuse in all 20 Judicial Circuits – did performance measures accepted by State Legislature (OPPAGA); able to obtain continued funding for Senior Judges and Appellate Mediation for continued statewide funding.
Ill Court Improvements-2000-2001
-16th Judicial District – Kane County – As Deputy Court Administrator implemented ICM study to reorganize felony division. Improved Probate and Civil case management as well
Tyler Technologies Court Improvements – 2016-2017
-Helped implement Courtools.org NCSC 10 Performance measures into Tyler InCode and Tyler Odyssey court case management systems affecting over 40 State Court/County/City and Municipal Court systems across the country for performance measures.
Largest Marsys California Superior Court case victim witness consultant – 2020-2021
-Rachael Gordon v Paul Daniel Frehley and Gene Simmons cases in San Diego Superior Court. @copyright Court Management Consultants Inc 2021
Consultant Profile
- Mr. Cameron served with the Courts Administration Branch (Program Development) with the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario) in Toronto.
- Mr. Cameron also served as an Assistant Court Administrator in Charlotte, N.C. and as a Deputy Court Administrator in Kane County, Ilinois.
- He has helped implement major court reforms including a combined ADR/2-track case management system that saved litigants $5m a year; $500 million expenditure planning forecast; budget submission of $20m/$9m; ABA time standards, performance meausures (CourtTools.org) and the implementation of the Crime Victims Act that included a victim fine surcharge which led to tens of millions of dollars for victims programs. He also wrote the first victim impact statement used in the courts in Ontario Canada.
- Mr. Cameron has served in an analyst role for the Florida Office of State Court Administration where he helped implement state wide programs that received new or ongoing State funding. These included a new guardianship monitoring program in Florida that stopped senior abuse.
- Mr. Cameron has served as a consultant for several state courts and has helped Tyler Technologies install performance measures into their state court software (Tyler Incode and Tyler Odyssey).