Massachusetts Courts Release E-Filing Pilot RFP

The Massachusetts Courts have released an RFP to pilot E-filing services for several of their courts.  To access the RFP go to their Commonwealth's Procurement and Solicitation System Comm-Pass at http://www.comm-pass.com/ and search (see bottom of the page) for reference document number "MATCourts 2012 1"

Court Case Management Systems 2012 Part 6: Tasks, Events, and Workflow

This chapter in the court case management series discusses the concepts of tasks, events and workflow as key design elements.

Leading Vendors Speak at E-Courts 2012

One of the most interesting part of the education program at every E-Courts Conference are the Vendor Bonus Sessions.  We have seen groundbreaking ideas such as Chief Judge Connie Steinheimer's CASEaDia with Tybera in 2008 and Tyler's statewide electronic courts implementation approach in 2010.  Here is a list of the sessions scheduled this year:

8:00 am  - ImageSoft:  Paving the Last Mile to a Paper-On-Demand Court
8:30 am  - SUSTAIN
9:00 am  - Thomson Reuters:  Expand your Capabilities with Thomson Reuters
9:30 am  - Tyler Technologies
10:00 am - USCourts.com:  E-Filing -- The Judge's Perspective
10:30 am - CourtView:  Celebrate Your Differences! (a new approach to case flow challenges)
11:00 am - Tybera:  Puzzled by eFiling?: Six Things We’ve Learned from Implementing Integrated eFiling Systems.

A fire hose of ideas at E-Courts 2012

The Googling Juror - An Update

Our good friend (and CTC-2011 speaker) New Zealand Judge David Harvey has updated his work on jurors and the Internet.

State of Washington Issues Appellate Court RFP

The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is soliciting Proposals from qualified Vendors to  acquire a commercial off-the-shelf Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) and the services required to implement the ECMS, validate it, and deploy the ECMS in the Washington State Supreme Court and three (3) Washington State Court of Appeals Divisions.

One can register and also obtain a copy of the RFP at: www.courts.wa.gov/procure

Fresno California Seeks CMS

The Superior Court of California, County of Fresno, is seeking one replacement case management system for two legacy case management systems – Banner and CCMS V2 - implementing in stages, one CMS for all case types.

LegalXML ECF 4.01 Approved as Committee Specification - Updated 12/9/12

We learned today that the LegalXML ECF committee has voted to approve the 4.01 draft and has forwarded it as a candidate OASIS specification.  Version 4.01 is a maintenance release that addresses minor schema and definition issues.

To view the specification click here.

This and That in Court Technology – November, 2012

More news from the web-o-sphere on Court Tech.

CMS Data Conversion and Archiving with XML

There is an attractive alternative to converting data when replacing, updating, or archiving your court case management system.

Court Case Management Systems 2012 Part 5: System Configurability and Adaptability

This installment in the court case management series discusses different overall approaches to system design.