Judicial Operations Lead

DelDOT; Georgetown (DE); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Delaware invites applications for the Judicial Operations Manager to oversee a unit of court operations, manage case flow, and coordinate activities among judges, attorneys, and agencies. You will implement policies, supervise staff, and participate in program development and testing of new procedures.

Essential duties include reviewing documents, issuing court papers, and maintaining accurate case data across multiple systems.

Qualifications

• Three years' experience in managing cases as they move through the legal process.
• Three years' experience in researching files, records, and other sources of information, to ensure accurate case data and resolve issues in case flow.
• Three years' experience in narrative report writing.
• Six months' experience in staff supervision.

Responsibilities

• Reviews legal/court documents for completeness, accuracy and compliance with applicable time limitations, costs and court procedures and determines appropriate procedural requirement for processing.
• Prepares and issues a wide variety of court and legal documents.
• Researches case files, records, databases and other sources of information to insure accuracy of case data and resolve discrepancies.
• Enters information into manual or automated systems.
• Prepares and maintains files and records insuring all required documents are included.
• Provides information on court/unit procedures and event status to the public, judges, attorneys and litigants.
• Attends hearings and proceedings to provide files, records and case information to judicial officer; records event disposition and administers oaths.
• Assesses case filings to determine placement in case track/program or recommends referral to alternative case tracks.
• Interprets and applies court rules, laws and procedural requirements for case events and caseflow management.
• Monitors and coordinates case activity through multiple legal events and processes.
• Tracks case events/status, anticipates case flow problems/causes for delay and initiates appropriate action to expedite cases effectively and efficiently including contacting participants to resolve issues that inhibit case flow.
• Develops case management procedures for use by judge or team.
• Advises judicial officers regarding various case events that ultimately lead to final case disposition.
• Coordinates case activity and events with judicial officers, attorneys, law enforcement agencies and litigants.
• Resolves technical case processing issues requiring research of case data and coordinating activities with other agencies and courts.
• Researches case files, records and other sources of information to insure accuracy of case data, prepare and issue court documents and resolve discrepancies and issues related to caseflow.
• Establishes and maintains contacts with the legal community, other agencies and courts/units, both externally and internally, to ensure case flow is expedited.
• Enters case data into automated case management systems; prepares and maintains case files and records.

Skills

Case management

Research

Narrative report writing

Staff supervision

Job description

The State of Delaware invites applications for the Judicial Operations Manager to oversee a unit of court operations, manage case flow, and coordinate activities among judges, attorneys, and agencies. You will implement policies, supervise staff, and participate in program development and testing of new procedures.

Essential duties include reviewing documents, issuing court papers, and maintaining accurate case data across multiple systems.