[Openefm-development] Specification Update: Legal XML

[Jim B. <be...@co...>]

Day 2 of the face-to-face was just concluded.  The item that was 
discussed that I thought was noteworthy had to do with electronic 
service.  Legal XML seems to be under the belief that electronic 
service should be conducted during all filings.  This is a good ideal 
but possibly naive.  In the Court Filing Blue use cases they discuss a 
court maintaining a service list for all case parties.    When a final 
confirmation of a filing is sent to an EFSP they envision the service 
list being sent along with it.  Thus allowing the EFSP to serve parties 
electronically when applicable and to tell filers which parties they 
will be responsible for serving in traditional ways.  This sounds fine, 
however most courts currently do not maintain the services lists.  This 
would require courts to implement some form of service list into their 
CMS.  Because of this I do not feel that it will initially be embraced 
by courts.  Some courts also designate the responsibility of 
maintaining a service list to one of the case parties.

Jim Beard
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