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Colorado State Courts Extend LexisNexis File & Serve Contract
Three-year agreement will extend e-filing initiative to county courts
DAYTON, OH, July 14, 2005 - Colorado, which has the most successful statewide electronic filing initiative in the United States, has signed a three-year contract extension for the use of LexisNexis® File & Serve, the e-filing system from LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, the company announced today.
Colorado in 2000 became the first state to adopt e-filing across the state using LexisNexis File & Serve and leads the nation in number of courts online and number of filings and service transactions. All 64 counties are online, and e-filing is used in over 80 percent of the general jurisdiction court civil cases.
"E-filing has had a very positive effect on how the courts and the clerk’s office operate," said Jerry Marroney, court administrator for Colorado and a former judge. "Judges and their staffs have better access to case information, and clerks are able to more efficiently manage the intake of filings."
Marking the five year anniversary of the project, Colorado courts are using LexisNexis File & Serve in general-jurisdiction civil, domestic relations, water rights and probate cases. County courts will begin e-filing in 2006. The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are also considering e-filing.
"We have worked closely with LexisNexis to develop what is now a very comprehensive and reliable e-filing system that is fully integrated with our legacy court case management system," added Bob Roper, chief information officer, State Court Administrator’s Office. "Our success, and this contract extension, is a result of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, and we are looking forward to expanding this to limited jurisdiction courts and possibly the appellate courts."
"The Colorado experience demonstrates that e-filing to the courts and e-service between attorneys can be successful on a broad scale," said Michele Vivona, chief operating officer of the LexisNexis, responsible for e-filing. "We see hundreds of courts and thousands of attorneys using e-filing to manage their litigation more effectively on a daily basis in all kinds of case types. And like the other 21 states that have implemented LexisNexis File & Serve, a partnering relationship has been the key."
Many individual Colorado courts are converting from voluntary to mandatory e-filing. A fully mandatory environment greatly reduces the burden on the court clerk’s office by reducing the amount of scanning and providing judges with a complete electronic case record, rather than a record that is partially electronic and partially paper. A detailed Colorado e-filing case study is available at www.lexisnexis.com/ColoradoStory.
About LexisNexis File & Serve
LexisNexis® File & Serve gives courts and law firms greater control over case file management. With a robust and secure infrastructure, LexisNexis File & Serve provides improved access to case documents and streamlines the intake process. Online clerk review and judicial action improve court operations, while the online document repository enhances care, custody and control. Law firms benefit from improved document access, automated case monitoring, and the elimination of the physical delivery of paper.
Over 60,000 judges, clerks, attorneys and other legal professionals nationwide have been registered to use LexisNexis File & Serve to manage 525,000 cases. Nearly 9 million documents have been filed and served electronically in the previous 12 months in jurisdictions located in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, the company includes some of the world’s most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
In the United States, LexisNexis® Total Research System (www.lexisnexis.com) offers an extensive range of online and print legal and regulatory information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals reach confident decisions and comply with the law.
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