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Todd is an attorney and technical consultant working for Georgia State University. He also runs his won consulting company, WTVIII, Inc. Todd has been involved since inception with Georgia State’s Electronic Court Filing Project as part of the Georgia State project. Todd founded the international standards effort Legal XML (http://www.legalxml.org).(obsolete link).
The Electronic Court Filing Project is currently engaged in an “Electronic Court Filing Interoperability Pilot” where five vendors in five different courts are installing e-filing. In the second phase of the Project the courts and vendors will test interoperability using the Court Filing 1.0 proposed standard developed by the US Joint Technology Committee and Legal XML.
Todd is an active member of the American Bar Associates’ Information Security Committee. He participates in the joint Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and World Wide Web Consortium XML-Signature Workgroup. (http://www.w3.org/Signature/).
Todd is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia and the American Bar Association. Todd graduate from Georgia State University College of Law, cum laude. He attended Ruprecht-Karis Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany for two years where he studied German, French and German and Anglo-American law. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Political Science.
Stephen Foley been involved in developing software applications for the legal profession over the last 20 years. These include Retrieve, Transcript Analyser, T/A-Law and LiveNote. He currently works for LiveNote a US company and is head of their development team, which is based in Melbourne. His interest in XML is in its inherent qualities to provide a conduit for data exchange between applications.
Jamie Wodetzki is CEO of SpeedLegal, a software company that develops web based document assembly and knowledge sharing tools for the legal market. Prior to founding SpeedLegal in 1999, Jamie was a Senior Associate with Minter Ellison Lawyers, working in the firm's Technology & Communications Group in Melbourne. His legal career focused on copyright, technology and the information industries, representing corporate, government and industry body clients. Jamie has a long association with open systems, as an adviser/lobbyist for the Supporters of Interoperable Systems in Australia (SISA) since 1997, and as a Board member of the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA).
Sandra Potter with over 20 years working in the law has specialised in the area of Litigation Support/Document Management for the past 13 years. Sandra's wide experience has given her an in-depth understanding of the legal profession, and the assistance it can derive from the judicious use of technology. Sandra oversaw the implementation of the cyber court technology in the Supreme Court of Victoria, and has been involved in some of the largest electronic cases conducted in Victoria, including the PRRT Arbitration, the Estate Mortgage case, the Longford Royal Commission and most recently was the Physical Infrastructure Manager at the MAS Royal Commission. Sandra has contributed to the development of relevant practice notes, and sits on several industry related committees and boards including the AIJA steering committee considering a national approach to the use of technology in the courtroom and teaches the Certificate in Litigation Support/Document Management course at RMIT."
Giles was formerly the Director Courts Development in the Western Australian Ministry of Justice - Court Services. With more than 16 years' experience in court administration he has held other senior positions within the Ministry of Justice such as the Executive Officer Supreme Court of Western Australia and the Director Information Services.
Giles joined Coram Solutions in August last year and has been providing solutions to courts the past twelve months. He is experienced in implementing court systems, including case management systems, integrated justice information exchange programs, electronic courtrooms and electronic forums, and is experienced in working with courts to identify specific systemic and procedural benefits of new systems. Giles is also knowledgeable in change management and process reengineering, particularly as applied to courts and justice agencies.
Bill earned his PhD in 1973 at Harvard University studying chromosome evolution and species formation in lizards. After migrating to Australia in 1980, he bought his first CP/M personal computer in 1981 and discovered computers were evolving a lot faster than lizards. Bill set out to learn more about computers by running a word processing bureau specialised in typing theses. After an early stint pushing personal computer literacy, from 1983-87 he was employed as a technical writer and Documentation Manager for small software house developing a range of sophisticated business and clinical practice management applications. In 1988-89 he was a technical writer and Documentation Manager for the Bank of Melbourne. Since 1990 Bill has worked for Tenix Defence in various documentation and documentation systems development and management roles representing all areas of the ANZAC Ship Project from bidding, contract development and management through to producing product support documentation. He is currently Documentation Systems Specialist in the a new cross divisional Strategy and Development Group.
Peter is the IT Project Manager of the Criminal Justice Enhancement Program being run by the Department of Justice.
Peter has twenty years experience working in the Information Technology industry on numerous roles, including:
Peter has been at CJEP for 2.5 years and is responsible for the provision of IT infrastructure to integrate the existing legacy systems, such as LEAP and Courtlink with the new CJEP applications. A message based middleware product has been utilized across two disparate IT domains. This has involved connecting two mutually trusted networks for the sharing of information across the Justice portfolio.
Michelle Mahoney heads an Australian wide team as the Director of the Applied Legal Technology, Mallesons Stephen Jaques newest practice group. Michelle is also a member on the MSJDotCom committee looking at opportunities for online legal services for the firm.
With over 15 years of experience in the legal industry, Michelle has project managed, designed and implemented technology solutions for some of Australia’s largest litigious and corporate matters. Michelle has advised both courts and law firms in civil and criminal electronic hearing facilities. Michelle’s work in Asia includes a number of online contract management systems. Michelle has prepared technology standards for commissions and has contributed to the drafting of Practice Notes governing the use of technology in Supreme Court proceedings in Australia.
Michelle has been instrumental in the development of the first Australian commercial imaged database package, together with the first Australian version of real time transcript software. Michelle is the founder of the Association of Litigation Support Managers in Australia and is an active member of Legal XML. She is currently undertaking a Masters of e-Business.
Timothy obtained his LL.B. and B.Sc. (Hons) with a major in Computer Science both from the University of Melbourne both in 1993. In 1998, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RMIT.
Currently a Senior Research Associate and Project Manager in the Multimedia Database Systems group at RMIT, Tim’s research focuses on information retrieval, and document management, particularly as applied to legislation. He has presented at numerous conferences and published a number of papers in this area. He has also published on defamation in cyberspace.
The group’s commercial focus includes EnAct, and the Structured Information Manager (SIM) whose customers include the Australian Taxation Office, Defence in Australia and US, the Parliamentary Counsel’s of Tasmania and NSW, Standards Australia and Macquarie Publications.
As Co-Chair of the Legislation workgroup of Legal XML, Tim is committed to establishing International standards in which to encode legal information using XML.
Paul Martin received a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and a PhD in Parallel Computation from the University of Edinburgh. Since then he has taught Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and researched and consulted on Web-based information exchange with a focus on XML. He is currently working in Melbourne for LiveNote Inc.'s development team.
Richard Antill is the Systems Architect of Ringtail Asia Pacific. Richard has 7 plus years experience in software development, and 2 plus years experience in using XML and XSL in the design, development and customization of the Ringtail software. In addition Richard's tertiary qualifications include a Bachelor of Law and this gives him the added insight into the business requirements of software systems within the legal industry.
Jason Harrop is Chief Technology Officer at SpeedLegal, where he is responsible for product design. Prior to founding SpeedLegal with Jamie Wodetzki in late 1999, Jason was a consultant with IBM Global Services Australia, where he specialised in helping IBM's customers with business and technical issues in e-business. Earlier in his career, Jason worked at a major Australian law firm, where he became convinced "there must be a better way".
Greg has a Masters in Commerce (Information Systems) with 28 years of computing experience and is currently working as Enterprise Architect with Computer Sciences Corporation specializing in development of standards XML for the Western Australian Department of Justice. Greg is also working with the Supreme Court of Western Australia to develop an XML Schema for Judgments.