To a lesser degree the same may be said about the legal profession. Lawyers have organized the paper necessary for their work based on the necessity presented by their office environment. Very little thought is given by the attorney as to how their processes might relate and integrate with their clients or the courts. Thus, there exists tremendous redundancy. The client organizes information.
Lawyers reorganize the information.
Then the court reorganizes the information a third time. The pilot project concluded with a formal evaluation by the National Center for State Courts on Sept. 2, 1997. Since then, the Clerk's Office and the court have engaged in a significant business process re-engineering effort. Work groups then proposed an entire new case handling process for each of the case types. These efforts will form the foundation for an extension of the original pilot.