Up to that point, his case had absorbed the energy of two police officers, a desk sergeant, a clerk who processed his paperwork and fingerprints, a driver who transported him to booking, other officers to secure him in the pen awaiting his appearance, a Legal Aid Society lawyer, an assistant district attorney, a court clerk and a court reporter to transcribe the proceedings.
In 2010, VA clerks processed a million claims -- but were still overwhelmed because 1.2 million new claims came in the door.
In 2009, the year it was implemented, VA clerks processed 173,000 paper claims by hand.
Standing in long lines as bored clerks process paper forms won't cut it.
We developed a combined clerking process that was supported by shared documentation, with the overall aim of reducing assessments (figures 1 and 2).
When it turned out that the couple's paperwork could not be processed by a clerk in another town, friends pitched in to find the mayor of Aberdeen, who opened the township building so Aberdeen's city clerk could issue an eighth-hour license.
In most counties, the clerks process driver's license applications on behalf of the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
CourtLink, which has 160 employees, developed a filing system that enables judges, lawyers and court clerks to process pleadings, motions and other documents electronically over a secure connection.
There, a clerk can burn the desired program onto a disc, a process that takes about three minutes.
On Monday alone, the city clerk's office processed about 180 marriage licenses, compared with 80 to 100 on a typical day.
In New York City, the City Clerk's office processed 1,105 marriage licenses last year for ceremonies officiated by Universal Life ministers, a small fraction of the total, but more than twice as many as in 2009.
