With the growing complexity in traffic court cases, and the advent of new evidence-based sentencing practices designed to decrease recidivism, trial court judges resort to a number of resources to stay abreast of these new developments including the ABA Judicial Outreach Liaison (JOL) program. In this Gavel Talks, the ABA Judicial Fellow for traffic safety matters will discuss the JOL program and the work of its network of Regional and State Judicial Outreach Liaisons.