Friday, May 10, 2013

Washington State Courts Announce Data Breach


Via Press Release, May 9, 2013

OLYMPIA, WA -- The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced today that a data breach occurred recently on its public website.  No court records were altered and no financial data was maintained on the site. However, it has been confirmed that 94 social security numbers were obtained. There is also the potential that up to 160,000 social security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers may have been accessed as well.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Court Case Management Systems Part 9B: Scheduling and Calendaring


In the previous article we discussed the concept of “buckets” or “slots” that are created so that cases can be assigned in a controlled and orderly manner.  And we also discussed the idea of scheduling a team of staff.  But there are many additional needs that should be addressed in a modern court calendaring system.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Court Case Management Systems Part 9A: Scheduling and Calendaring


This edition of our Court Case Management Systems series will discuss court scheduling and calendaring.  This first part will focus on core functionality while in the next, we will discuss what needs to be done to have scheduling and calendaring systems take advantage of existing and future technology.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

NIEM 3.0 Alpha 2 Draft Open Public Review Announced


The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) working groups have announced a public review of their latest draft standard.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Virginia Courts Announce E-Filing Pilot


Press Release - April 10, 2013

The Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia and George E. Schaefer, Clerk of the Norfolk Circuit Court, announce that the Virginia Judiciary E-Filing System (VJEFS), which allows attorneys to electronically file civil actions in circuit court, will be implemented as a pilot program in the Norfolk Circuit Court, beginning April 15, 2013.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Friday, March 29, 2013

Q&A with Daniel Lewis of Ravel Law


There are many exciting things happening in the world of legal information systems.  One innovative graphical presentation approach has been taken by Ravel.  We were recently fortunate to have Daniel respond to our questions in the following article.