[legalxml-courtfiling] Revised statement of work for Order ofProtection Effort

[John Greacen <john@greacen.net>]

Here is a revised statement of work from Dr. Leff about this project.

 

Statement of Work

 

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

 

This will include:

1) determining how the Order of Protection should be modeled using the

   Court Document 1.1 standard [Abdul2002].

2) The effort will include the forms used in at least three states.

3) This will use objects from the Justice XML Data Dictionary

   Schema Tax Force (JXDDS) sponsored by the Georgia Tech Research

   Institute (GTRI)

4) An XML Schema version of the Court Document 1.1 standard will be

   developed, if one has not produced by another group.  The group will

   ensure that the schema version validates the example documents 

   specified in the Court Document 1.1 standard and the Criminal Justice

   Forms at

   http://fac.wiu.edu/D-Leff/CriminalJusticeZoo.html

5) The work will coordinated with the Protection Order Advisor, a system

   developed in conjunction with the Idaho Supreme Court Technology Committee.

   It uses artificial intelligence to advise prose petitioners requesting

   a protection order. [BRANT 2001]  Dr. Leff will coordinate as the liaison

   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. 

Some software may be produced to validate the proposals using prototyping. 

It will be dealt with outside of the Technical Committee.

It is hoped 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

 

 

 

John M. Greacen

Greacen Associates, LLC

505-780-1450