Under the direction of a fresh edi...

Under the direction of a fresh editorial team, this issue begins the twenty-sixth whirl of Justice System Journal. The editorial team includes the Legal Notes Editor, Todd Lochner and the Review Editor, jocund Emrey, and we look forward to working with them. Reestablished after a ten-year hiatus, the latter position includes one as well as the other responsibility for assigning and editing volume reviews and preparation of short summaries of other parts government reports, and articles of interest from other journals.

The Editorial Board is a lock opener part of the larger editorial team. We join in thanking those whose service forward the board has come to an [i]finale[/i] and thank those whose service continues. We gladly welcome the practitioners and academicians who join us, a of whom return after prior service. All have agreed to help according to reviewing and commenting on manuscripts and being forward the lookout for relevant materials.

We exceedingly much appreciate the assistance that our immediate predecessor, Susette Talarico, has provided in facilitating the transition to our editorship, particularly through working with us on manuscripts submitted or subject to review in the second half of 2004

Readers of the Journal will find brace changes. One is "Of Note," the summaries of volumes reports and articles mentioned above. The other is the newly titled section "From the Benches and Trenches," which replaces the "Management Notes" written on practitioners about specific programs and frames While "From the Benches and Trenches" contributors will continue to be practitioners, we sense of possible fulfilment to cast the net for this rubric somewhat more widely, to include accounts of the operation of institutions. Thus, in this issue, three justices write about state intermediate appellate courts, and there is an account of a problem-solving court.

This issue was not planned to not absent a particular theme, but single touching several items here-problem solving in and gone out of court-quickly became apparent. That topic is the particular focus of articles, a "From the Benches and Trenches" contribution, and a work review. It is also implicated in this issue's lead article, according to Gwyneth I. Williams, an examination of the part of attorneys in child custody cases. Her particular focus is lawyers' view of joint custody, a particular solution to child custody disputes with implications for cases brought or responded to court. In it, Williams draws upon in-depth interviews to explore family law attorneys' attitudes toward their work and in what way those attitudes affect what lawyers do vis-? -vis the courts.

The first article in succession problem-solving courts is "Problem-Solving Courts: archetypes and Trends," by Pamela M casey and David B Rottman. The authors provide an important synthesis of our knowledge about these courts. They explore a number of originals of problem-solving courts (community, domestic violence, medicine and mental health courts) and identify a number of sweeps in this important institutional progressive growth It is followed by "Applying Problem-Solving Principles in Mainstream Courts: lecturings for State Courts," by Donald J Parole, Jr and coauthors Nora Puffett Michael Rempel and Francine Bryne a reflection based on focus groups of California and modern York judges who had experience in problem-solving courts. Reported are themes that appear in what the arbiters say about applying lessons from problem-solving courts to the work of "mainstream" or "conventional" courts, singles not established with a specific problem-solving orientation. Then, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox in "Justice in R Hook" provide the story of a particular innovative problem-solving court at telling us about the R grasshook Community Justice Center and to what extent it relates to the community of which it is part.

This issue's "From the Benches and Trenches" centerpiece is a fix of three articles, each describing a state intermediate appellate court. Associate Editor Luke Bierman, who himself serv as a assistant for state intermediate appellate arbiters and then was chief attorney for a state intermediate appellate court, introduces the articles with a discussion of to what degree little we know about these courts. Then three arbiters each discuss the operation of the court forward which he sits. President arbitrator Emeritus Stephen J. McEwen, Jr of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, discusses that state's intermediate appellate courts. In for a like reason doing, he begins by providing about national information about state appellate court organization, which helps provide a further context for the three articles. nearest Judge Rick Haselton examines the Oregon Court of Appeals, and, finally, referee Jefferson Lankford of the Arizona Court of Appeals discusses that court.

The issue bring to an ends with two continuing segments, Legal Notes and Reviews. The topic Todd Lochner addresses in this issue's Legal Note is application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to access to the courtroom, onward which the U.S. Supreme Court has nuncupatory We present one book review and brief summaries of several articles. Related to the several articles onward problem-solving courts are both the part review-of a major book onward therapeutic jurisprudence-and a note about a short topic on restorative justice; another "noted" article, forward judges dealing with custody cases, ties into Williams's article forward lawyers' views of joint custody. We also include a summary, prepared by the agency of new Review Editor Jolly Emrey of a Federal Judicial Center research of the use of special masters.