Although unnerving, I often meet up with prisoners (in-custody defendants) face-to-face while waiting for an elevator in courthouses. Typically, when this happens, the elevator doors open, and I am directed by court security personnel to step aside while the prisoners are escorted out of the...

Going, Going…

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article, The Ruling Is in: High-Tech Mobile Law Offices Really Work, describing my attorney’s law firm’s surprising transition from a traditional office to an open-mobile office environment. As I concluded, I considered the other examples of private...

Participation in a jury is the manner in which most Americans experience our judicial system. A much greater number of people serve on criminal and civil juries than experience the judicial system as plaintiffs, defendants, attorneys, or officers of the court. In fact, as of 2012, as many as 27% of...

Every day I read yet another article, sometimes online, sometimes in the newspaper, about an organization adopting an open office environment design that supports mobility and collaborative work practices. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about Citigroup’s new 39-story high-rise...

As an architect, I don’t know everything about the courthouse planning process. As an undergraduate student at Ohio State University, my architecture professors routinely emphasized their belief that architects were the center of the universe, omniscient beings like Frank Lloyd Wright who could...