The Washington Post recently published an article about innovative methods to proceed with jury trials amid the current pandemic. Click here to read the article.

Judge Marina Garcia-Wood was honored as Judge of the Month for July by the Broward County Hispanic Bar Association. Her introduction and biography can be found here: https://browardhispanicbar.com/2020/07/01/judge-of-the-month-the-honorable-marina-garcia-wood/

Watch the full interview below.

Although it is unknown when face to face courtroom activity will resume in the Seventeenth Circuit, we will be prepared with new virtual courtrooms which allow litigants, attorneys, and witnesses to appear via Zoom from a remote setting or in-person inside the courtroom. The circuit’s IT and Audio/Video departments have been hard at work developing a process to interface Zoom into technology that already exists in the courtrooms. When put to use, these virtual courtrooms will offer many advantages to seamlessly maintaining court dockets.