FW: Electronic Service of Process

[James E Cabral <jec@mtgmc.com>]

ECF TC:

 

FYI.  On behalf of the TC, I reached out to the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) to ask for their help identifying states that may be interested in testing eSOP with registered agents as supported in ECF 5.0.  I spoke with Mr. Shippy, the chief deputy to the Missouri Secretary of State today and they are potentially interested.  Other states may follow. There may also be an opportunity to speak on this topic at the NASS conference July 13-15 in Philadelphia.  I’ll add this to our agenda for upcoming TC meetings.

 

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Jim Cabral
502 509-4532

 

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From: Reynolds, Leslie <reynolds@sso.org>
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2018 4:55:42 PM
To: James E Cabral
Cc: Shippy, Steele
Subject: RE: Electronic Service of Process

 

Dear Mr. Cabral,

 

I sent your information to my members last week. I heard back from the Missouri Secretary of State who said they would be interested in speaking with you about eSOP. They are currently exploring possible legislation allowing electronic service of process.

 

The Secretary is Jay Ashcroft and his Chief Deputy is Steele Shippy.

 

I have copied Steele on this email, so that you can reach out to them.

 

I’ll follow up if I hear from any others.

 

Thanks so much,

Leslie

 

Leslie Reynolds

Executive Director

National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)

444 N. Capitol Street, NW Suite 401

Washington, DC  20001

202-624-3525

www.nass.org

 

 

From: James E Cabral [mailto:jec@mtgmc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:06 PM
To: Reynolds, Leslie <reynolds@sso.org>
Subject: Electronic Service of Process

 

Ms. Reynolds,

 

I understand you are the Executive Director of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).  I am reaching out to you to gauge the interest by NASS in advancing electronic service of process (eSOP) in the U.S.  I am the chair of the OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing (ECF) Technical Committee, the standards group behind the open standard for electronic court filing and service.  The next version of the ECF standard, v5.0, will be released later this year and will include technical support for electronic delivery of documents to process servers and registered agents in states and courts that choose to enable eSOP in statutes and court policies.  Support for electronic delivery to registered agents will likely require collaboration and technical coordination between the Secretaries of State that manage the registries of commercial agents and the courts that manage the electronic court filing systems.  As we move ECF 5.0 forward, I would appreciate your assistance helping us identify some Secretaries of State that may be willing to test these new capabilities.  I have already identified one major registered agency that is willing to participate in a test and there are likely others.

 

If NASS is interested, I would be glad to give you a quick introduction to the ECF standard and the scope of the new capabilities.

 

Please let me know if you think this is something NASS would support.

 

Thank you,

 

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Jim Cabral
502 509-4532

 

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