RE: [legalxml-econtracts] Retainer and conflicts scenario

Is that a potential LegalXML effort?

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From: jkeane <>
Date:  Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:56:27 -0400

>A group of vendors and IT folks from the Legal Services Corporation have
>been working on XML for a Case Management system. This might be a better
>forum for conflicts clearance.
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>JimK
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>From: jmessing [mailto:]
>Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:03 PM
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>Subject: [legalxml-econtracts] Retainer and conflicts scenario
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>After having gotten well into a scenario, I have abandoned the effort. For
>those of you who were not present on the last call I undertook to generate a
>scenario for a law firm retainer that would also check for law firm
>conflicts.
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>As I got deeper into the scenario, it became clear that it really was one
>best suited for an xml form that gathered information which would be useful
>both to the conflicts checking software and to the retainer application. The
>latter probably would be a template that accepted data from the form to
>generate a contract for a specific client-matter. There were probably other
>applications as well: opening up a litigation file, setting up pleadings,
>etc. But an xml form to xml contract I think is out of scope of our current
>work, so I have stopped.
>
>Best regards.
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