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2010 Conference

2010 Conference Information

October 20-23 meeting focus: leadership and adjusting to a leaner tomorrow. 

NCMC’s 46th Annual Meeting and Education Session in Los Angeles this year will target Leadership and Optimizing Resources for a Leaner Tomorrow.  The three and one-half day program will walk metro court leaders through a mixture of useful, up-to-date information on how to deal with slimmer budgets, improve relationships with funders, and reengineer and ration services.  Leading practitioners in the fields of judicial and court administration will present the latest economic forecasts for metro justice systems and suggest strategies to best address both problems and opportunities that will occur.  Common and novel expenditure reduction responses ranging from staff furlough days to leveraging non-traditional partners to deliver court services will be examined in interactive sessions.

“Charles (“Tim”) W. McCoy, Jr., Presiding Judge of the L.A. Superior Court is the ideal person to lead this important conference,” NCMC Chairman Rufus King noted recently,  “As the leader of the nation’s largest metropolitan court serving 10 million people in Los Angeles County, he is not only an insightful strategist, but a noted expert and author in critical thinking.  These are extremely valuable skills in these unprecedented times of budget cuts and service retrenchments.  Judge McCoy, a former Marine Corps officer, teaches leadership as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law and recently wrote the book, Why Didn’t I Think of That?  Think the Unthinkable and Achieve Creative Greatness (Prentice Hall Press, 2002).  McCoy will guide discussions and share insights on leading trial judges and developing effective courtwide strategies in times of economic stress.

Other faculty include:

  • Dr. John Hudzik, Acting Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Michigan State University.  He is a national and international expert in court administration, justice system budgeting, financial management, and strategic planning;


  • Dr. Roger Hartly, a professor at the University of Arizona’s Eller School of Public Administration has studied and written widely on the politics of judicial branch budgeting.  He has presented at the National Association for Court Management and the Urban Court Manager’s Network.  He teaches classes that relate to the law, courts, and judicial systems, as well as conflict resolution and statistics;


  • Dr. Tom Clarke, Vice President of Research and Technology for the National Center for State Courts, has conducted a number of recent studies on court performance measures, reengineering, and organization development in trial courts throughout the nation.  Applying technology solutions to streamline workflow, improve efficiencies and reduce costs are areas of special expertise for him.