MODERN COURT MANAGEMENT: TRENDS IN COURT ORGANIZATION CONCEPTS — 1976

Abstract

The American Bar Association Standards Relating to Court Organization,1 adopted in 1974, are based largely on a bureaucratic or closed system model of management. They show that the ABA perspective on improvement and mod ernization of judicial branch organization has changed little since publication of the first ABA standards in 1938.2 The 1974 standards continue to encourage judges and court administrators to over-centralize, over-formalize and rigidify management in times when the exact opposite is highly desirable. Judicial man agement should create court systems which retain and develop characteristics of resiliency, strength, sensitivity, flexibility and self-reliance. When judicial management limits bureaucratic tendencies and promotes flexibility, the sur vival potential of courts is increased. The ABA standards, however, promote more bureaucracy and less flexibility.

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