by imagesoftinc | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog Posts, Court Posts, ECM in Courts, Electronic Documents, Technology
In Animal House (one of my favorite movies), the trial scene has its own instructive moral. The Dean, through his smarmy hench-students, hauls the fun-loving and rule-oblivious Delta brothers into Student Court to answer for their “too numerous to name”...
by imagesoftinc | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog Posts, Court Posts, ECM in Courts, Technology, Uncategorized
This month’s NACM Annual Conference had excellent presentations and conversations regarding where courts are heading given current and emerging technological, demographic, political, financial and social trends. Big players among the trends discussed included both...
by imagesoftinc | May 12, 2014 | Blog Posts, Court Posts, ECM in Courts, Uncategorized
On hearing of a particular court’s experiences with implementing a new information system recently, I was reminded of a scene from Carl Sagan’s science fiction classic, Contact. In the story, an advanced civilization has sent specifications for...
by imagesoftinc | Mar 17, 2014 | Blog Posts, Court Posts, Electronic Documents, Technology
One of the difficult, but necessary, aspects of successfully migrating courts to paper on demand is tracking down and making appropriate changes to anachronistic laws and rules that require, or are perceived to require, paper. I had assumed that the primary challenges...
by imagesoftinc | Mar 3, 2014 | Blog Posts, Court Posts, Electronic Signature, Technology
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I have been a vocal advocate of electronic signatures for a long time; and I will not now unsay a word of my advocacy. Most statutes, rules and orders are silent or very broad as to HOW an electronic signature must be appended and...
