Courthouse Construction: Information on Courtroom Sharing

Provides info. on the judiciary's efforts to have dist. judges share courtrooms, esp. dist. judges with senior status, also known as senior judges (SJ). The objectives were to: (1) examine the judiciary's courtroom sharing (CS) policies for SJ, (2) obtain info. about the extent to which SJ are currently sharing courtrooms & their experiences with CS, & (3) determine the judiciary's efforts to explore the potential for SJ to share courtrooms in future courthouse const'n. projects. Examined existing policies on CS for all dist. courts, obtained info. about dist. judges' CS exper. at locations where CS was occurring, & reviewed courtroom needs assess. studies done by the judiciary for 33 projects in the judiciary's 5-year const'n. plan to identify where CS was planned.Bernard L. Ungar is the author of 'Courthouse Construction: Information on Courtroom Sharing' with ISBN 9780756733377 and ISBN 0756733375.