But bar officials contended that a tracking system was essential to avoid having different judges assign a lawyer to different trials at the same time. David Golomb, the president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, offered wary support for the new tracking mechanism. Even though a former Trial Lawyers' president reviewed the OCA system and offered suggestions as to how it could best meet lawyers' needs, Mr. Golomb said he was concerned about the accuracy and completeness of OCA's database in light of the Trial Lawyers' prior experience with OCA's record keeping. In addition, the new system provides information about the type of case, the purpose of each prior court appearance, the action taken on prior court dates and the purpose of the next scheduled court date. The data base can be searched by the name of the lead plaintiff or defendant, index number or attorney.
Attorneys doing searches by their law firm names can obtain a calendar of their future court dates.