Review: Court Directory by Bloomberg BNA
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Attorneys frequently have to look up contact information for courts, whether it be to call a judge’s chambers, send an email to the court with a draft of a proposed order, or ask a question of a clerk of court. By this point I presume that all of this information is available on court websites, but if you are out of the office using your iPhone that means that you still need to search for the website and find the part of the website with contact information — and many of these pages are not optimized for the iPhone’s screen so you may have to squint. An easier solution is to use the Court Directory app from Bloomberg BNA. This app contains detailed contact information for judges, clerks of course, and other courthouse personnel for federal and state courts. The app doesn’t have contact information on every single judge, but it is darn close. Bloomberg BNA says that the 2013 edition contains listings for 2,133 state courts, 216 federal courts, 16,025 judges and 5,319 clerks and court administrators in the 50 states, D.C., U.S. territories, and more. In Louisiana, for example, I see all of the courts in which I practice, but I don’t see some courts of limited jurisdiction such as Justice of the Peace courts or traffic courts.
The app is not fancy, but it is quick and easy to use. By default, when you launch the app it displays the state court information for the state where you are currently located, but you can change the home page to another jurisdiction of you prefer. For states, the app divides up courts by level. So here in Louisiana, the “1st Court Level” is our Supreme Court, the “2nd Court Level” is our five courts of appeal, and “3rd Court Level” is our trial courts.
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