Kate Storey:                       Welcome to The Paperless Productivity Podcast, where we give you the tips, tricks, and know-how to solve your biggest workflow challenges, and bring greater productivity into your workplace everyday.

Every year, eCourts is one of the justice community’s most highly anticipated events. It’s where some of the biggest topics, challenges, and solutions are discussed with those leading the way and shaping the modern court. Today, we’re so excited to be joined by Jesse Rutledge, the Vice President of External Affairs for the National Center for State Courts, which hosts eCourts.

Welcome to today’s podcast, Jesse.

Jesse Rutledge:                 I’m glad to be here.

Kate Storey:                       Great. Now I also want to mention that Jesse is no stranger to the podcast scene, as he is the host of the NCSC’s own podcast, “Court Talk.” Could you tell us a little bit about that?

Jesse Rutledge:                 Yeah, I’d love to. It’s something that we started about, 3-ish years ago, maybe a little under three years ago, when we were sitting around the table thinking how could we better communicate out to the court community and to our audience, and sort of following on the heels of the popularity of the serial podcast, we started to think about whether we had the kind of material and the time and the resources to create our own. So, we gave it a shot, and three years later we are putting them out, about once a month or so. It’s a great opportunity for us to talk to people who maybe work for the National Center and want to talk about a project that they are wrapping up, or we’ve had great conversations with some judges about issues that they’re seeing in the administration of justice. We’ve talked to members of the media and lots of others, so we have kind of a diverse set of guests and so far, I think it’s going pretty well. We came in with modest expectations, and I think those have been met and hopefully exceeded.

Kate Storey:                       Absolutely. There’s no shortage of topics to cover is there?

Jesse Rutledge:                 No. There are not. There are too many things for us to talk about and not enough time.

Kate Storey:                       Absolutely. Well we’re certainly excited to have you on the other side of the microphone today.

I’m also happy to welcome Brad Smith, the Senior Justice Consultant for ImageSoft, who has been a regular fixture at eCourts, is going to take us through today’s conversation with Jesse.

Hi Brad.

Brad Smith:                         Hi Kate, how are you?

Kate Storey:                       Good, how are you?

Brad Smith:                         Good. As you mentioned, eCourts and CTC’s some of the highlight events that all of the vendors in the community really look forward to…Been meeting Jesse for years, now. And so I’m really excited that Jesse can join us for today’s telecast.

Kate Storey:                       Absolutely.

Brad Smith:                         Okay, hey Jesse, and again, thank you once again for getting with us. I have found recently, going to different events, different clerk conferences, different judges conferences, there’s a lot of new individuals that are coming to the courts community. For example, in Tennessee, there was 31 different court clerks out of the 95. So, how do you, at the National Center for State Courts explain some of the differences between eCourts, which is in Vegas and the CTC conference?

Jesse Rutledge:                 Well, that’s a great place to begin, Brad.

I guess there’s a couple ways that we approach it here. There are some structural differences that kind of set them apart. So for one thing, the Court Technology Conference,