[legalxml-courtfiling] Statement of Work: Order of Protection Project

["Dr. Laurence Leff" <D-Leff@wiu.edu>]

Statement of Work

Dr. Laurence Leff of Western Illinois University and graduate students
will prototype a solution for the Order of Protection.  Mr. John Greacen
will advise on this effort.  This work will be entitled the Order of Protection
Prototype Effort.

This will include:
1) determining how the Order of Protection should be modeled using the
   Court Document 1.1 standard [Abdul2002].
2) Developing HTML forms that will prepare these forms for the user.
3) Developing software that will extract the information from this XML
   for the NCIC database, and others.
4) The effort will be demonstrated for the forms used in at least three states.
5) The work will coordinated with the Protection Order Advisor, a system
   developed in conjunction with the Idaho Supreme Cour Technology Committee.
   It uses artificial intelligence to advise prose petitioners requesting 
   a protection order. [BRANT 2001]  Dr. Leff will coordinate as the laison
   to the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.

The deliverable to the Technical Committee will be a white paper on the effort.
It is possible that this may include suggestions for additions or modifications
to the Court Document 1.1 standard.  The software will be disposed of outside
of the Technical Committee; e. g., it may be made available for download on
a non-Oasis web site.  It is anticipated that this work will be completed
by January 15th, the end of our Western Illinois University's intersession--
every effort will be made to complete the work much earlier.

It is anticipated that members of the Integrated Justice Technical Committee
will provide advice and information.

Qualifications of Proposers:

Dr. Leff is an Associate Professor of Computer Science having received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990.  His publications in applications
of Legal XML include [Eguchi 2001, Leff 2001, Leff 2001a, Leff2001b, Leff 2001c,]

John Greacen is current co-chairperson of the OASIS Legal XML Member Section
Electronic Court Filing and was Director of the Administrative Office of the
Courts in New Mexico.  Relevent publications include [Greacen 1995], 
[Greacen 2001], and [Greacen 2001a].

References:
   
[Abdul2002] Abdulaziz, M., Chambers, R., and Messing, J. "OASIS LegalXML 
Member Section XML Court Document 1.1 Specification Committee Draft 01, 
2002-09-21" Document identifier: cd-courtfiling-courtDocument11-01 
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-courtfiling/) 

[Brant2001] Branting, L. K., "Advisory Systems for Pro Se Litigants,"
The Eight Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Proceedings
of the Conference, May 21-25 2001, Washington University, ST. Louis,
ACM 2001, 139-146.

[Eguchi 2002]	Eguchi, Go, Leff, Laurence, "XML Rule Editor for Java Expert Systems,"
IAAIL 2002 Workshop on Practical Knowledge Systems in Today's Law Offices,
Chicago IL March 16, 2002, page 66-71.

[Greacen, 1995] "Court Rules Related to Technology," The Court Manager,
Spring 1995.

[Greacen, 2001] State Court Administration, Chapter in forthcoming revision 
of American Bar Association's "The Administration of Justice"

[Greacen, 2001a] Legal Information versus Legal Advice: 
Developments During the Last Five Years,
Judicature, Jan-Feb 2001

[Leff 2001].	Leff, Laurence, "Automated Reasoning with Legal XML Documents,"
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law,
St. Louis. May 21-25, 2001.  Association of Computing Machinery, New York, 
2001, pages 215-216.

[Leff 2001a]	Leff, Laurence, "Standardization of Rule-Based Processing, 
Transformation, and Generation of Legal XML Documents", 
Document Number, WD_100XX_2001_05_05, Version 1.0,Legal XML, 
http://www.legalxml.org/DocumentRepository/unofficialnotes/cfiling/un_100xx_2001_05_05.html, June 2001.

[Leff 2001b].	Leff, Laurence, "Rule-Processing in the Legal XML Context," 
Proceedings of the ICAIL-2001 Workshop: Legal Knowledge Systems in Action: 
Practical AI in Today's Law Office" St. Louis, May 21, 2001, pages 27-30. 

[Leff 2001c]	Leff, Laurence, "Rules about XML in XML To Support Litigation 
Regarding Contracts" submitted to Artificial Intelligence and Law