A former judge on the Alameda County Superior Court in California, Paul Seeman served as the chair of the Alameda County Collaborative Juvenile Court. For his accomplishments on the bench, he was recognized with the Wilmont Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge of the Year award. Paul Seeman helped launch Hayward’s first dependency drug court and implemented direct calendaring for its dependency courts. The practice eventually became standard county-wide. 

In direct calendaring, once a case is assigned to a particular court and judge, that judge controls the calendaring of all subsequent hearings, and all matters - whether routine review matters or contested trials - remain in the same court. This is in contrast to a master calendaring system, where hearings and routine reviews may be heard in different more specialized courts. Direct calendaring has many advantages in the juvenile court setting, where the judge may become familiar with children and families over time and be more efficient and focused in decision making. There is no need for a new judge to learn the history of the case each time it is assigned to a different department, as may happen in a master calendar system. The result is much greater efficiency and decisions based on more knowledge and experience with the litigants and their issues.

Direct calendaring has been endorsed as a "best practice" in juvenile court by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.