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- Research and analyze hundreds of matters each year for consideration by Judicial Conference committees.
- Work with the Judicial Conference and other government agencies to coordinate and implement new legislation and procedures—a significant effort in recent years.
- Support over 2,000 judicial officers, including active and senior appellate and district court judges, bankruptcy judges, and magistrate judges.
- Handle public affairs for the Judiciary, respond to numerous inquiries from Congress, the media, and the public about court operations.
- Develop new ways for handling court business, and provide training and assistance to court employees to help them implement programs and improve operations.
- Communicate the Judiciary's legislative needs to Congress and develop judicial impact statements on proposed legislation.
- Provide program leadership, guidance, and support to circuit executives, clerks of court, probation and pretrial services officers, federal defenders, circuit librarians, senior staff attorneys, preargument/conference attorneys, bankruptcy administrators, and other court employees.
- Issue regulations and guidelines, and prepare manuals and a variety of other publications that include essential information regarding judicial business.
- Provide centralized core administrative functions such as payroll, personnel, and accounting services.
- Administer the Judiciary's unique personnel systems.
- Develop and execute the budget, and provide budget execution guidance to the courts.
- Define resource requirements through forecasts of caseloads, work-measurement analyses, assessments of program changes, and reviews of individual court requirements.
- Provide legal counsel and services to the Judiciary.
- Collect and analyze detailed statistics on the workload of the courts.
- Monitor and review the performance of programs and use of resources.
- Auditing the courts' financial operations.
- Develop and support automated systems and technologies used throughout the courts.
- Provide long-range planning support.
- Manage the Judiciary's space and facilities program, identify courthouse requirements and coordinate construction and management of the facilities with the General Services Administration.
- Monitor the U.S. Marshals Service implementation of the Judicial Facilities Security Program to execute security policy for the Judiciary.
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