There are a couple of articles recently posted at Law.com regarding court technology issues that are worth reading. The first, Court Documents: Will They Age Well?by David Harrigan, covers the difficulties of assuring the long-term viability of electronic court documents, including a joint effort to develop a robust archiving standard, called PDF-A, for presentation to the ISO and other standards bodies. Harrigan also covers XML, and intimates that the data exchange format will be used in association with PDF-A. Harrigan notes that none of the state (or federal) courts are currently pursuing the adoption of the PDF-A standard.

The second article, Get Ready for E-Filing, by Pat O'Donnell for the Legal Times, covers the new SEC electronic filing required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. [pdf] Given a newly-shortened 2 day deadline for certain disclosures, the Act mandates use of technology to insure timely filing. Further law.com reading on the impact of this Act on document retention policies here.

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