LEGAL XML & ELECTRONIC FILING:

THE AUSTRALIAN FOCUS

(A joint conference between the AIJA and VSCL)

 

P R O G R A M

25 October 2001

Day One - Non Technical Day

9.00 am              Opening and Welcome

                           The Hon Justice J Phillips, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria.

9.15 am              What is XML

Presenter: Winchel ‘Todd’ Vincent III

9.30 am              Why non technical staff should concern themselves with XML

Presenter: Stephen Foley, LiveNote

10.00 am            A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Lawyer (example)

                           Some Practical examples of the ways in which XML

                           will change the business of law – what’s happening now,

                           what’s likely to happen soon, and what this means for

                           strategic planning in the legal industry

Presenter: Jamie Wodetzki, CEO, SpeedLegal

11.00 am            Morning Tea

11.30 am            Example of how XML could be used with Transcript

Presenter: Stephen Foley, LiveNote

12.00 am            Electronic Court Filing Policy

a.      Electronic Records and Signatures

b.      Digital Signatures and Public Key Infrastructure

c.       Civil Procedure and Court Rules

d.     Reengineering Workflow

e.      Privacy

f.        Other Issues

See: Georgia Interoperability Pilot Lessons Learned (obsolete link)

Presenter: Winchel ‘Todd’ Vincent III

1.00 pm             Lunch


2.00 pm             Overview of e-filing in Australia

Presenter: Sandra Potter, Consultant

2.20 pm             Practical use of XML in e-filing

                           Presenter: Giles Nunis, Coram Solutions

3.00 pm             Afternoon Tea

3.20 pm              How Melbourne is contributing to the Contracts standards effort

Presenter: Bill Hall, Tenix, Melbourne

4.00 pm              The future impact of XML: the CJEP experience in Victoria

Presenter: Peter Stephenson, CJEP

4.40pm              What future impact XML will have on the Australian Legal Industry

                           Discussion Panel:                           Michelle Mahony, Mallesons

                                                                                     Peter Stephenson, CJEP

                                                                                     Stephen Foley, LiveNote

                                                                                     Jamie Wodetzki, SpeedLegal

5.30 pm             Close

7.00 pm             Conference Dinner VCSL Annual Dinner (following page for details).

DAY TWO

Day Two -Technical Day

Friday 26 October 2001

9.00 am              Understanding XML (obsolete link)

·          XML Standards Organizations and Resources

·          XML Family of Standards and Tools

·          XML Vocabulary

                                                                                     Presenter: Tim Arnold Moore, RMIT

10.00 am            In-Depth Presentation on W3C XML 1.0 Specification

                                                                                     Presenter: Winchel ‘Todd’ Vincent III

11.00 am            Morning Tea

11.30 am            DTD and XML Schemas

                                                                                     Presenter: Dr Paul Martin, LiveNote

12.15 pm           Microsoft XML Parser

·          The Dom Object Model

·          Examples of Applications that export XML data

                                                                                     Presenter: Richard Antill, Ringtail

1.00 pm             Lunch


2.00 pm             Building Client Facing Systems using XML and Web Standards

Although most firms have their own Standard Operating Environment, their
clients will be using something else.  Principles as well as tested techniques are presented
for offering services to disparate clients, over the Web.

                          

                                                                                     Presenter: Jason Harrop, SpeedLegal

3.00 pm             Judgements and XML – the WA experience (examples)

                                                                                     Presenter: Greg Kirk, CSC

3.30 pm             Afternoon Tea

4.00 pm             XSL examples of simple code

                                                                                     Presenter: Richard Antill, Ringtail

4.30 pm             Open forum discussion panel to discuss any of the topics covered in the Day Two sessions.

                           Discussion Panel:                           Winchel ‘Todd’ Vincent, III

                                                                                     Tim Arnold Moore, RMIT

                                                                                     Dr Paul Martin, LiveNote

                                                                                     Richard Antill, Ringtail

                                                                                     Jason Harrop, SpeedLegal

5.30 pm             Close.