Recordings for Credit

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

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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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.

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. 

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

This webinar will use scenarios to explain tricky issues related to criminal law and the justice court. 

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including .5 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

This webinar will discuss the Chapter 62 of the Parks and Wildlife Code.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

This webinar will explain the proper procedures that apply to the enforcement of judgments in criminal cases.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

This recording will cover basic procedures in a criminal case in justice court involving the defendant's appearance and appeals.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

This recording will cover basic procedures in a criminal case in justice court involving the defendant's appearance and appeals.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 0 civil hours.

This webinar will cover issues related to theft by check and issuance of bad check cases.

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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.

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will explain issues relating to Writs of Retrieval, Writs of Restoration and Writs of Re-entry.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours. 

This webinar will cover the eviction updates to COVID-19 Emergency Orders and the CARES Act as of April 29, 2020.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 0.5 total hours, including 0.5 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will explain issues relating to Writs of Retrieval, Writs of Restoration and Writs of Re-entry.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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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.

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will explain issues and procedures relating to a trial do novo, the justice court appeal

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

This webinar recording will cover the basics of issuance and service of the citation and default judgments.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 1.5 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 1.5 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 0.5 total hours, including 0.5 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

How will the jurisdictional increase affect your court? Watch this video to find out how. 

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

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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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.

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 1 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 3 total hours, including 3 civil hours. 

In this recording, students will take on standard civil procedure issues from filing through judgment.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hours, including 1 civil hours. 

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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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.

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 2 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 2 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours.

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including .5 civil hours. 

This webinar will discuss best practices for implementing social distancing polices and procedures in your court and office. 

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will address procedural issues relating to setting, monitoring, and enforcing bond conditions in DWI cases.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

This webinar recording will cover the basics of processing an ODL case.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will cover inquest reporting issues related to death certificates, child fatalities, and opioids.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for .5 total hours, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 0 civil hours. 

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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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1.5 total hours, including 1.5 civil hours. 

This webinar recording will cover the procedures concerning a justice court’s plenary power.

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Judicial Education Credit Hours
This webinar counts for 1 total hour, including 1 civil hour. 

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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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.