Electronic Legal Assistant

The Georgia Magistrate Court Judges Training Council, State of Georgia Department of Information Systems and Communications, Georgia College

The Georgia Magistrate Court Judges are composed of elected judicial representatives from each of the counties in Georgia. The representatives vary in their formal legal training, which ranges from limited experience in judicial areas to advanced degrees in jurisprudence.

The electronic legal assistant was designed to assist magistrates in determining whether the known evidence supports the issuance of a criminal arrest warrant or bad check citation. The purpose of the program is to help legal professionals in areas of limited law familiarity, capturing worthwhile knowledge, improving job performance and increasing the quality and uniformity of an existing procedure.

The program makes use of extensive hyperlinks and varying degrees of "the reasons why", for questions and statements. Graphics and color are also a predominate part of the user interface. The program runs on PCs and online. Another version was prepared to accommodate the variety of workstations available to the Georgia Magistrate Court Judges.

For more information, contact: Dr. Barbara Jeanne Clinton, J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA 31061