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Kurt Schlauch

Kurt is the vice president of Fentress Incorporated and lead court consultant. He specializes in courthouse needs assessments, space programming, and applying quantitative methods to support organizational decisions. His personal interests include running, skiing, coaching pole vault, Gamecock football, and traveling with his wife and two adult children.

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“Can you spare a square?!” In the latest instance of art imitating life, Seinfeld fans will surely recognize this infamous line–and identify with the plight of some unfortunate workers in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters building. The backdrop for the workers’ misery is the...

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“Chaos. Shock. Retirement.” These are just a few of the terms and reactions appearing in headlines and social media posts in the wake of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order requiring federal employees to “return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis.”  

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During a recent project team meeting, the topic of Conway’s Law was raised. Despite the wealth of useless trivia rattling around in my brain, I had to confess I had never heard of it. Credited to computer scientist Melvin Conway in the late 1960s, Conway’s Law states that “Organizations which...

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A recent podcast in the National Association for Court Management’s “Court Leader’s Advantage” series highlights a potentially alarming trend—court filings are down over the long term. The podcast is based on a newly released book that examines state trial court civil filings in five states...

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About two years ago, I wrote in this space about the limitations of remote court proceedingsA couple of recent experiences in court planning helped me realize how much and how quickly perspectives about remote court proceedings are changing. I’ll get to those in a moment, but first a bit of...

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