LexisNexis Retains National E-Filing and Court Technology Expert; J. Michael Greenwood, Leader of U.S. Courts' E-Filing Service, Selected as Senior Advisor.DAYTON, Ohio -- LexisNexis a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, today announced that Dr. J. Michael Greenwood, one of the key architects of the U.S. Federal Courts' e-filing system, known as "CM/ECF CM/ECF Case Management/Electronic Case Files " and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system known as "PACER" has agreed to serve as a senior advisor and consultant. Greenwood, who has extensive knowledge of e-filing, electronic case management and electronic public access, will provide expertise on technology and market development for the group in charge of LexisNexis(R) File & Serve. "Mike is one of only a handful of industry experts who have real-life experience in successfully developing and implementing large-scale e-filing and public access systems for the legal community," said Michele Vivona, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of the LexisNexis electronic filing organization. "There are many respected advocates who can talk conceptually about e-filing, but Mike has actually done it." The federal e-filing system launched in 1996 has achieved significant success. Over 153,000 lawyers have filed tens of millions of documents and docket entries through the system. Over 150 U.S. district and bankruptcy courts have implemented CM/ECF to date. Only LexisNexis File & Serve rivals CM/ECF in terms of the volume of transactions or number of users. LexisNexis File & Serve, launched over a decade ago, processes over six million filing and service documents annually and has over 50,000 lawyers, judges, clerks, and other legal professionals as registered users. "Today we know definitively that electronic filing and service can dramatically improve court operations and give law firms a better way to manage litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. ," Greenwood said. "I also have enormous respect for what LexisNexis has been able to accomplish with their electronic filing and service initiative, and I'm pleased to be able to lend my expertise." Greenwood has over 30 years of experience as a strategist, project manager, analyst and developer, working with federal and state courts, government agencies and bars across the country to implement new technologies and business processes within the judiciary. He has held key positions in the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and previously worked for the Federal Judicial Center The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) was created by Congress in 1967 (28 U.S.C.A. § 620) to enhance the growth of Judicial Administration in federal courts. It has become the judicial branch's agency for planning and policy research, systems development, and continuing education for , the National Center for State Courts The National Center for State Courts, or NCSC, is a non-profit organization charged with improving judicial administration in the United States and around the world. It functions as a think-tank, library, non-profit consulting firm for the courts, advocate for judicial and , and the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation. He received his masters and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in personnel and industrial psychology and has a bachelor's from Union College in psychology. LexisNexis has implemented e-filing and/or e-service projects statewide in Colorado and Delaware; and in individual court jurisdictions in Arizona, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. About LexisNexis LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical )(NYSE:RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac. |
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