Recordings for Credit
Welcome to TJCTC's updated webinar page. Webinars are a great way to get education. You can watch at your own speed on your desktop, tablet, or phone. Look below to see what webinars are available.
These webinars are made possible by a generous grant from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Most Recent Webinars
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Criminal Webinars
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Tricky Issues: Criminal
This webinar will use scenarios to explain tricky issues related to criminal law and the justice court.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Tricky Issues: Fines, Fees, and Costs
This webinar recording will cover some difficult and non-standard issues when determining fines, fees, and costs in justice court cases, both civil and criminal. Topics such as the time payment fee, expunction fees, and when various court costs apply will be tackled.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.
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Bond Forfeiture
This webinar recording will go through each step of the bond forfeiture process in justice courts and address how and when a court may impose an appearance bond.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Hunting and Hunter Safety
This webinar will discuss the Chapter 62 of the Parks and Wildlife Code.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Reporting Family Violence and Other Justice Court Convictions
This webinar recording will explain how criminal history reporting is set up in Texas. It will also detail the requirements and process for justice courts, with a special emphasis on the new reporting requirements for justice court Family Violence cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Expunctions
Criminal justice reform trends are making expunctions more frequent in justice court. This course will explain when it is proper to grant expunctions and what type of expunctions are within the jurisdiction of justice court.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours.
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Step By Step Criminal: Enforcement of Judgments
This webinar will explain the proper procedures that apply to the enforcement of judgments in criminal cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. -
Step by Step Criminal Procedure: Appearance and Appeals
This recording will cover basic procedures in a criminal case in justice court involving the defendant's appearance and appeals.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 0 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1 hours or longer.
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DSC, Deferred Disposition and Other Dismissals
This recording will cover basic procedures in a criminal case in justice court involving the defendant's appearance and appeals.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Hot Checks
This webinar will cover issues related to theft by check and issuance of bad check cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 0 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1 hours or longer.
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Eviction and Landlord/Tenant Topics
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Eviction Moratorium and Updated Emergency Orders - September 18, 2020
This webinar is an update of the important issues concerning the CDC Eviction Moratorium and latest emergency order. This was a live webinar and includes questions asked during the webinar.
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. -
Tricky Issues: Evictions
This webinar recording will explore unusual or complex issues cases, including notices to vacate, tax foreclosures, immediate possession bonds, appeals, payment of rent into the registry of the court and writs of procedendo and dealing with your county court.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours.
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Writs of Retrieval, Restoration, Reentry
This webinar recording will explain issues relating to Writs of Retrieval, Writs of Restoration and Writs of Re-entry.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Turbocharged Tenant Rights
In certain situations tenants have “special” rights beyond those normally presented in an eviction case. These rights are often triggered by statutes such as the Bankruptcy Act, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and Section 8 of the Housing Act. This class will examine issues presented under these statutes and how to handle them.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.
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Eviction Appeals
This webinar recording will explain the procedure for eviction appeals.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Step by Step: Residential Eviction Procedure
This webinar recording will explore from the filing of the petition to issuing a writ of possession, this webinar will cover the basics of residential eviction cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 1 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1 hours or longer.
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Civil Procedure Webinars
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Tricky Issues: Civil Cases
This webinar recording will cover some difficult and non-standard issues in civil cases in justice court. Topics such as service issues and default judgments, deceased parties, and enforcement of civil judgments will be discussed.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.
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Appeal de Novo
This webinar recording will explain issues and procedures relating to a trial do novo, the justice court appeal
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Post-Judgment Civil Procedure
This webinar recording will address procedural issues relating to post-judgment remedies in small claims and debt claim cases filed in a justice court.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Citations and Default Judgments
This webinar recording will cover the basics of issuance and service of the citation and default judgments.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Practical Debt Claim Issues
This webinar recording will use examples and scenarios to answer the main questions in these cases - what does the creditor have to prove and how do they prove it?
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 1.5 civil hour.
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CPR for Civil Knowledge: Understanding the CPRC
This webinar recording will use examples and scenarios to answer the main questions in these cases - what does the creditor have to prove and how do they prove it?
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 1.5 civil hour. -
Step by Step Civil Procedure: Appeals and Enforcement of Judgments
This webinar will explain step by step the basic procedures for appeal and enforcement of judgments in civil cases in justice court.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. -
Agreed Judgments
This webinar will distinguish agreed judgments from settlement agreements and Rule 11 agreements. Best practices and due process issues will be discussed in an interactive style.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 0.5 total hours, including 0.5 civil hours. -
Fundamentals of Contracts
This webinar will use scenarios from contract cases that arise in justice court to explain basic contract principles, including when and how a contract is formed, when a contract might be unenforceable, common defenses that might be raised by a defendant, and how to calculate damages.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. -
$20,000 Question: Jurisdictional Increase in Justice Court
How will the jurisdictional increase affect your court? Watch this video to find out how.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. -
Torts-Crash Into Me
Using a car accident case as an interactive case study, students in this webinar will go through the steps of processing and entering a final judgment in a case of personal injury or property damage.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1.5 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1.5 hours or longer.
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How Much Should the Judgment Be? Calculating Damages in Civil Cases
This webinar will cover the types of damages in civil cases, including compensatory damages, attorney's fees, and pre- and post-judgment interest, and how to calculate them.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 1 civil hours. -
Civil Causes of Action
This webinar will cover several different types of civil lawsuits, including what the plaintiff must prove in order to be awarded a judgment, and defenses that a defendant may raise.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 3 total hours, including 3 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 3 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 3 hours or longer.
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Step by Step Civil Procedure: Filing through Judgment
In this recording, students will take on standard civil procedure issues from filing through judgment.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 1 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1 hours or longer.
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A Motion for What?
Attorneys and self-represented litigants frequently file motions that a judge has never seen before. Sometimes these motions are proper, sometimes they are appropriate in other courts, sometimes they are named incorrectly, and sometimes they are completely the work of the litigant’s imagination. This webinar will discuss a variety of motions that justice courts might encounter and what options the judge has to handle them.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1.5 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1.5 hours or longer.
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Slip and Fall Cases and Other Premises Liability Issues
This webinar recording will explore who is responsible when someone gets hurt on another person's property? This recording will explain what duties the property owner has, and when they are liable for the injuries of another.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.
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Juvenile Webinars
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Juvenile Law: Magistrations, Admonitions, and Detention
This webinar recording will cover the requirements for juvenile magistration and detention, including special admonitions that are given to juveniles and when they are necessary.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Basic Truancy
This webinar recording will provide an introduction to truancy court. Learn the proper procedure for handling these cases, all the way from referral from the school through enforcement of the court order.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours.
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Juvenile Criminal Law
This webinar will provide an overview of the law that applies to juvenile cases in justice court. It will explore current trends and recent legislation and the impact on the current court policies and procedures.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Court and Office Management Webinars
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Best Practices: Responding to Judicial Conduct Complaints
This webinar recording will explain the process followed by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in assessing a complaint and offer suggested best practices if a response to a complaint is required.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Records Requests
This webinar recording will cover procedures for covering public records requests. By the end of the webinar, you will be able to determine whether a record is a court case record or a judicial record and apply the correct procedures for responding to a record request.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.
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Sovereign Citizens
This webinar recording will assist you in dealing with individuals who claim to be members of the “Republic of Texas” and do not recognize the authority of the judicial system or the State of Texas over them.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.
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Records Retention
On this webinar recording, Bonnie Zuber from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission will discuss requirements and best practices for retaining court records and documents
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.
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Legal Information vs. Legal Advice
This webinar recording will cover the sometimes-blurry line between a court providing legal information, which is allowable and encouraged, and legal advice, which is barred by the Code of Judicial Conduct. Practical scenario examples will be given and discussed.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Tech Tools: Utilizing Online Resources in Your Court
This webinar recording will discuss technology tools to use to get through the changing landscape safely and efficiently due to coronavirus.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.
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Social Distancing in Your Court and Office
This webinar will discuss best practices for implementing social distancing polices and procedures in your court and office.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Cybersecurity in Your Court and Office
With more court activities moving online, now is the time to review your office’s cybersecurity practices. Make sure your staff knows the most common cybersecurity issues and how to prepare for them beforehand. Join us for our “Spring Cleaning series” for a discussion of simple cyber security best practices that can protect your court and office’s data.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. -
Self-Care in the Age of Corona
In times of emergency, the public often looks to the courts and public offices for answers. Suddenly JP courts and Constable offices are expected to know the answers to many county issues, while also dealing with potential backlogs and other court and office business that has been complicated by COVID-19. Join us for our “Spring Cleaning series” where we will discuss how to take care of ourselves and our staff during this stressful time.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. -
Day to Day Ethics
This webinar will address ethics issues that could arise in the day to day running of your court, including social media issues, demeanor, and a court’s legal obligations.
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours. -
How to get Zoom in Your Court
Ready to start doing Zoom hearings, but unsure where to begin? Join us for a quick and easy walk through those steps with some best practice tips!
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 0.5 total hours, including 0.5 civil hours. -
Child Disabilities
In this recording, students will learn about child disability issues that could impact how the court should handle juvenile cases, including both criminal and truancy cases. Students will apply what is learned by participating in real world scenario activities and discussion.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 2 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 2 hours or longer.
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Self-Represented Litigants
Self-represented litigants are common in justice court. This course will examine the role of justice courts with respect to providing procedural fairness in every case, regardless of who the parties are.
What if I already took this course at a live seminar?
If you attended a live seminar with TJCTC this year in Galveston, Austin, or San Antonio, you already received this course and do not need to retake it.Click here to view the recording.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. -
Virtual Jury Trial Best Practices
Are you ready to get back to jury trials? Hoping to clear some of your backlogged trials? Let Judge Chu and his staff guide you through the process they used to hold the 1st virtual jury trial in the nation
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. -
Creating an Inclusive Environment for People with Disabilities
Join Gavin Steiger from Texas State University as he covers best practices for making your court and office an inclusive environment for people with disabilities.
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. -
Who is in Your Courtroom? LGBTQ+ People in Texas Justice Courts
Justice court touches the lives of many citizens in Texas. Their experience in court can directly affect their trust and confidence in justice. This webinar will lead participants through discussions on how justices of the peace and court personnel can understand and expand upon diversity, fairness, and access issues for LGBTQ+ folks in their courts and offices. Our speaker will be Professor Todd Brower, Judicial Education Director at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The webinar will qualify for 1 civil hour of judicial education credit.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Magistrate Duties Webinars
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Peace Bonds
This webinar recording will explain the correct procedures to follow when someone applies for a peace bond and when a peace bond is issued.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours.
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Mental Health Warrants
This webinar will address issues that arise in mental health warrants including when hospitals and doctors are involved, determining imminent harm, and best practices for working with mental health providers in your county.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 0 civil hours.
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Blood Search Warrants
This webinar recording will cover procedural topics relating to search warrants issued for the purpose of seizing the blood of a person arrested for an intoxication-related criminal offense.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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DWI Bond Conditions
This webinar recording will address procedural issues relating to setting, monitoring, and enforcing bond conditions in DWI cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Search Warrants
Search warrants are not “one size fits all.” This course will help you understand the difference between search warrants, administrative warrants, blood warrants, evidentiary warrants, cell phone warrants, and contraband warrants, as well as when a justice of the peace can – and cannot – issue each.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. -
Q&A Magistration and Inquests (Can be found under Inquest Webinars)
The webinar and handouts for this webinar can be found under the Inquest Webinars section.
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Pretrial Risk Assessment and Setting Bail
Setting bail, pretrial risk assessment, and pretrial detention have become major issues recently both in the legislature and in federal courts. This webinar will examine the current law concerning bail and bond conditions and address best practices in setting bail and personal and surety bonds.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
What if I already took this course at a live seminar?
If you attended a live seminar with TJCTC this year in Galveston, Austin, or San Antonio, you already received this course and do not need to retake it.Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours.
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Administrative Proceedings Webinars
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Environmental Hearings
This webinar recording will discuss environmental enforcement hearings, such as septic violations and other public nuisance issues, filed in justice court. The webinar will address when the court has jurisdiction and how to process these cases.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Tow Hearings
This webinar recording will cover the process of a tow hearing in Chapter 2308 of the Occupations Code from filing a request for the hearing through appeal.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Basics of ODL
This webinar recording will cover the basics of processing an ODL case.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Inquest Webinars
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Inquests: Autopsies and Body Transport
This webinar recording will feature a discussion of Chapter 49 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and other information relating to autopsies and transport of bodies.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours.
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Inquest Reporting Issues
This webinar recording will cover inquest reporting issues related to death certificates, child fatalities, and opioids.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Conversation with a Medical Examiner
This webinar will provide a forum for discussion about inquests. Participants will have the chance to ask a medical examiner questions about cause and manner of death, how inquests and autopsies have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and other tricky issues.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
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Causes of Death
This webinar will answer your questions about the causes of death versus symptoms and relieve anxiety about the reporting process.
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Q&A Magistration and Inquests
This webinar will provide a forum for discussion about magistration and inquests. Participants will have the chance to ask questions and pose scenarios to learn more about tricky situations that arise.
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Conversations with a Medical Examiner: Autopsies & Other Testing
Listen as Dr. Pinckard, Travis County's Chief Medical Examiner, discusses autopsies and other testing that is available to justices of the peace during their inquest investigations. You will also get a view into the state-of-the-art Travis County Medical Examiner's Office and the technology used by Dr. Pinckard and his staff
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
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Conversations with a Medical Examiner: Tricky Issues
On this recording, Dr. Corinne Stern, Webb County Chief Medical Examiner, will discuss tricky issues that may arise during a death investigation. Viewers will learn more about mass casualties, unidentified bodies, and how cadaver dogs work with the medical examiner’s office.
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Judicial Education Credit Hours
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Conversations with a Medical Examiner: A Panel Discussion
Join the chiefs from the oldest and newest medical examiner’s offices in Texas for an interactive discussion about all things related to death investigations. Participants will have the chance to hear two different points of view on how medical examiners conduct death investigations from Dr. Stephen Pustilnik, Fort Bend County's Chief Medical Examiner, and Dr. Kim Molina, Bexar County's Chief Medical Examiner.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours.
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Trial Procedure
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Discovery in Justice Court
This webinar recording will discuss processing pre-judgment discovery motions and post-judgment discovery requests, including motions to compel and appropriate sanctions.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours.
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Plenary Power
This webinar recording will cover the procedures concerning a justice court’s plenary power.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour.
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Impaired Driving
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Please note that other webinars with topics related to impaired driving can be found in the "Magistrate Duties Webinars" and "Juvenile Webinars" sections.
Please note that other webinars with topics related to impaired driving can be found in the "Magistrate Duties Webinars" and "Juvenile Webinars" sections. -
Drug Impaired Driving
This webinar recording will provide a look at drug impaired driving trends and how drug use impacts a person's ability to drive.
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After you have watched the webinar, please fill out our online certification form for credit.
Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 0 civil hour.Note: The recorded time of this webinar is shorter than the 1.5 hour credit, as it includes required self-study and activities where the student will pause the recording. Total time spent including activities is 1.5 hours or longer.
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