Electronic courtrooms may be experiencing a slow start in the United States, but the digitization of American courtrooms are beginning to “pop-up.” Opus 2 International, a litigation and court reporting software service, recently completed, in mid-September, the first fully integrated electronic courtroom in Miami, Florida. And the company has plans to open in New York as well.
With international litigation on the rise in the United States, technology solutions are (and will continue to become) more in demand within courtrooms. Opus 2 International aimed to deliver a fully electronic courtroom that could provide all different types of technological tools in one place, which is not common today, especially in the U.S.. Head of Global Marketing, Brenda Mahedy, explains,
“Various disparate hearing room services already exist in the U.S., such as trial presentation tools, thirdparty interpretation services, video conferencing [,etc.],” but the problem is, they don’t all exist in one place.
Mahedy says that unfortunately, courtrooms are not usually integrated with each other (in terms of technology), and that Opus 2 International is hoping to provide a “much more seamless and efficient process” inside the electronic courtrooms. Services such as presentation software, collaboration software, video conferencing, interpretation services for multi-lingual cases, and more are available all in one centralized place to provide that seamlessness that Mahedy speaks of.
Technology services have already been used both in state and federal court systems in the United States. The likes of Asia and the United Kingdom are witnessing court digitization as well, and electronic courtrooms will be sure to increase as we move forward.
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