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Colorado Judiciary, LexisNexis Agree to Provide Court Docket Data Electronically Statewide
Court system filings to be available to the public through two-year contract for LexisNexis CourtLink services
DENVER, COLO. AND DAYTON, OH, September 14, 2005 - The Colorado judiciary has awarded a two-year contract to LexisNexis® U.S. to provide electronic search services through LexisNexis® CourtLink®. LexisNexis will serve as Colorado’s partnered private sector agent in providing the general public and selected government entities remote access to important court data that includes a summary of case information and the register of actions in civil, domestic and criminal cases filed in Colorado state courts.
The announcement was made jointly by the Colorado court system and LexisNexis, a global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. LexisNexis will implement the contract in phases, with public availability of state court cases in late November. LexisNexis CourtLink will allow users to search by case number and litigant name and also electronically track these cases.
LexisNexis will add an alerting feature in late December. This new functionality will allow law firms to be among the first to know when one of their clients or prospects is sued.
The new contract comes on the heels of a July renewal of a LexisNexis File & Serve statewide contract for court e-filing services.
"The Colorado Judicial Department was the first in the country to implement statewide electronic filing of court documents using LexisNexis® File & Serve in 2000. Now the Judicial Department has shown its trust and confidence in LexisNexis to do the same with electronic access to court docket information," said Michele Vivona, vice president and general manager of LexisNexis litigation services products, including LexisNexis CourtLink.
"We were looking for a vendor that could bridge electronic filing and real-time access to our court data by both the public and government agencies," says Gerald Marroney, Colorado State Court Administrator. "This contract is part of our long-term vision for the Colorado judiciary to give immediate and secure access to court cases to the public. At the same time, Colorado government agencies will have court data access at no cost to the agencies."
"We are very pleased that our first statewide contract for CourtLink docket information services is the great state of Colorado," said Michael Gersch, vice president of strategic operations.
Colorado state trial courts that will be available through LexisNexis CourtLink include all 64 county courts, excluding Denver County, 22 district courts, selected municipal courts and seven water courts, one for each of Colorado’s major river basins.
About LexisNexis CourtLink
LexisNexis® CourtLink® improves the interactions between corporate counsel, law firms and courts by providing electronic access, retrieval and analysis of court documents. LexisNexis CourtLink helps attorneys prepare to argue a case more effectively by providing information about the litigants, opposing counsel and judge. The same service also helps law firm client development professionals and marketers gain new insights into a client's litigation history and to identify cross-selling opportunities.
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.
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