Aug 19, 2000
counterclaim Invited to Participate in Georgia Pilot

Pilot Project to Establish Interoperability Standards Between E-filing Vendors

EUGENE, OREGON - August 19, 2000 - counterclaim announced today that the Georgia Courts Automation Commission (GCAC) has selected them to be one of the five electronic filing vendors to participate in the Court Filing Interoperability Pilot Project. The GCAC is sponsoring the project to provide Georgia courts and attorneys with proof-of-concept of electronic court filing and also to better understand the need for, and barriers to, developing court filing standards in Georgia. The GCAC also wishes to implement the LegalXML standard to test its usability and as proof-of-concept of interoperability among courts and vendors. The four other vendors are @court, e-filing.com, JusticeLink, and Verilaw. More information on the pilot project can be found at www.legalxml.org/Georgia/.

counterclaim, www.counterclaim.com, provides simple and reliable electronic filing and information management solutions to courts and attorneys. counterclaim serves to ease the paper grid-lock by allowing information to flow electronically rather than by paper. counterclaim was founded in 1999, and is based in Eugene, Oregon.

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Shogan Naidoo
counterclaim
(541) 484-9235
shogan@counterclaim.com

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