Presentation to highlight Lawdex plan for converting
90% of California’s attorney service firms to electronic routing model within three
years.
Seattle, WA [September 14,
2005] –Premiere
eFile provider Lawdex Corporation announced today its roadmap to convert 90 percent of California’s attorney service firms to electronic document routing within three years. Lawdex developed the plan with expert input from the 350 member California Association of Process Servers (CAPPS).
Lawdex and CAPPS will present the
new eFiling and document routing model before the National Center for State Courts’ Ninth Annual Technology Conference in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September
14th [Seattle Convention Center, Room 4C-3 at 1:15 PM]. Presenters include Jeff Karotkin, CAPPS eTechnology Chair and Scott Stanley, CEO for Lawdex.
The Lawdex plan addresses those
courts who’ve expressed the need for eFile adoption without court disruption.
Originally formulated by Lawdex for submission to the Arizona Judicial Council,
the three-phased adoption plan calls for graduated rather than court mandated
eFiling. E-Filing in most U.S.
Federal courts will be mandatory by the end of 2006.
"By serving the process server
community we’re serving a vital link between attorneys, their clients, and the
courts," said Stanley. "Our model promises to electronically
network California attorneys along a roadmap already conceived by California engineers to link all court-records electronically within a very short time-frame.”
CAPPS handles document running,
court filing, and service of civil litigation papers for 90% of California’s
Attorneys. The proposed roadmap
promises to immediately impact the rate of eFile adoption by lawyers within
California and
other states considering their conversion from paper to electronic court
filings.
Attorneys and court administrators
have expressed a critical need to improve the speed at which paper flows through
the California
legal system. In the
U.S. as a whole this will include
more than 1.5 billion documents from 90 million court cases in 2005. Lawdex is
responding to this demand by delivering a solution through the CAPPS membership
to automate what had been a mostly manual process for sending, receiving and
recording court documents.
Process servers, lawyers, and
administrators using the Lawdex solution can initiate a request to route a
document and track its movement throughout the routing process. The result is a
more visible and efficient process that eliminates paper filing and reduces
manual touch-points.
Lawdex announced its strategic
alliance with software pioneer Nsite Corp in December of 2004 as part of its
ongoing effort to deliver eFiling to the legal community. Nsite online software serves as the
engine powering the Lawdex document-routing solution.
About Lawdex
Lawdex is an eFile solutions
provider to courts, attorneys, and their clients. Lawdex on-line services help
the legal community connect with individual and corporate clients, state courts,
national process servers, as well as with research and referrals. Established in
1999 Lawdex operates with offices in Tucson and San Francisco. Lawdex continues to serve the
needs of the legal community, while it launches its new fleet eFile solutions
for 2005. For more information call: 520-206-9244, or visit www.lawdex.com
About CAPPS: Founded
in 1970 the California
Association of Photocopiers and Process Servers has grown as a member-driven
organization with approximately 350 member attorney service firms serving some
90% of California State Attorneys.
Over the years it has focused on the renewed goal of continued
enforcement of the due process clause of the U.S.
constitution. In order to
accomplish this goal, CAPPS has defeated many service by mail Legislative bills
through the efforts of our legislative advocate. For more information call:
916-239-4065 or visit www.capps.org
About Nsite: Nsite is the industry's only
on-demand solution to automate and improve business process. Delivered as a
subscription-based service via the web and hosted by IBM, Nsite enables
continuous improvement of user-driven business processes. Today, thousands of
users around the world are accessing Nsite to automate a wide variety of
business processes. Founded in 1998, Nsite is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. For more information, call
925-249-4100, or visit www.nsite.com
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