Beginning in 2003, the Federal District Court in New Jersey will switch from using snail-mail in favor of faxing documents to “consenting parties” as they transition to the implementation of an e-filing system, according to this law.com article. Continue Reading
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Category Archives: E-Records
SEC E-Filing of Ownership Reports
On December 18, the SEC proposed: “the mandatory electronic filing of change of beneficial ownership reports required to be filed by officers, directors and principal security holders under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Web site posting of such reports by issuers with corporate Web sites.” Continue Reading
Northern District of Geogia Moves to E-Filing
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued Standing Order 02-01, Electronic Access to Public Records and Sensitive Information, on October 17, 2002. The document stipulates that effective January 1, 2003, the court “intends to make electronic access to court files available through PACER by imaging documents into the court’s computer system.” Continue Reading
Patent Office Works on Transition to E-Records
As I reported in November, the USPTO has undertaken an ambitious plan to transition to a paperless public access system. However, this new agency announcement indicates that there is now a greater understanding of the tremendous challenges inherent in this project, and the need to ensure that paper copies continue to be available to prevent… Continue Reading
Southern District of NY to Initiate E-Filing
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a press release on December 2 stating its plan to implement a new e-filing and case management system in February 2003. Continue Reading
CA Law on Computer Database Hacking
The California state government learned the hard way the repercussions of not acting swiftly to respond to, secure and disclose that employee personal data was comprised by a wide scale database hacking operation in April 2002. Fast forward, and their legislature is now the first in the country to pass a law to prevent the… Continue Reading
Document Management After Enron
This interesting commentary reviews the requirement for documents management in the post-Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley Act corporate environment. Destroying corporate documents, via shredding or other “digital” means can be a criminal act, so increased attention is warranted to how internal documents are stored, shared and deleted. Continue Reading
New Guidance from Archives on Email and Attachments
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a guidance detailing the procedures necessary for the transfer of email messages and attachments to the agency. Continue Reading
Archiving Digital Information
“‘Why Do We Need to Keep This in Print? It’s on the Web …’: a Review of Electronic Archiving Issues and Problems,” by Dorothy Warner. Continue Reading
"Prototype for a Universal Virtual Computer"
According to this New York Times article, Dr. Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, has been testing a program to preserve digital documents so that they can be read decades into the future, despite the obvious obstacles of the evolution of hardware and software. A paper he wrote on the topic,… Continue Reading
National Archives Wants to Archive E-Records
NARA is facing the daunting task of archiving millions of electronic records for public access, many of which were created using formats that are now obsolete. Continue Reading
