Tom,
Please share this email with
members of the N.C. Bar Association.
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I would like to give you a
progress update on the NCAOC’s Searchable Civil Calendars project, which
provides the ability for attorneys to query for upcoming civil court dates
statewide by using their attorney bar number. As you may recall, my last email
announced the pilot of searchable civil calendars on the nccourts.org
website beginning October 2012.
Please keep in mind that this is
an optional new feature being made available statewide to clerks and judges,
each of whom will decide whether using it is in the best interest of their
office. As part of the implementation, clerk’s and judge’s staffs in each county
will learn a new method to post calendars from VCAP and from CaseWise. Much of
the effort during the pilot was to fine-tune the new method of posting
calendars.
The following counties
participated in the pilot and are now posting select calendars on the
system:
Ashe County Clerk’s
Office
Cabarrus County Clerk’s
Office
Caswell County Clerk’s Office and
Judge’s Office
Davidson County Clerk’s
Office
Franklin County Judge’s
Office
Granville County Judge’s
Office
Haywood County Clerk’s
Office
Mecklenburg County Judge’s
Office
Vance County Judge’s
Office
Wake
Warren County Judge’s
Office
On December 17, we announced the
availability of the new calendar feature to all counties and provided them with
information on how to get started. We expect many more counties will begin
participating in the near future.
To search civil calendars by
attorney bar number, follow these steps:
1.
On nccourts.org, from Favorites on the right side of
the screen, select Court Calendars.
2.
On the left side of the screen,
select Court Calendars.
3.
On the left side of the screen,
select Civil Calendar Attorney Query by Bar Number.
If your civil calendar date does
not appear when you search by your bar number, do the
following:
1.
The calendar in question may not
be eligible for the search feature. To confirm that the calendar in question was
intended to be posted as a searchable calendar, on the Civil Calendar Attorney
Query by Bar Number results webpage, use “Select county to
view information about which calendars are posted.”
2.
Your bar number may be recorded
incorrectly in the court’s VCAP or CaseWise system. Do the following to obtain
help:
Our goal is to provide automation
to support the courts and make information easily available to the public. It is
my hope that attorneys will find the new searchable civil calendars feature to
be beneficial. Feel free to contact me with any questions or
comments.
Leah Bryant
Administrator for
Applications Development
Technology
Services Division
North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts
919
890-2027 T
919 740-5381 M
919 890-1912 F
Providing
services to help North Carolina’s unified court system operate more efficiently
and effectively, taking into account each courthouse’s diverse needs, caseloads,
and available resources.