This seems to be the week for me to blog about blogs.  I have now added to the Links Menu on the right of this blog the National Center for State Courts Court Technology Bulletin Blog.  Highly recommended.

It is a particularly good source of news about e-filing, case management, etc.

A recent post is about the fascinating problem of court document authentication — proving that a document is genuine.   The blog discuses the proposal for a universal URL system for every legal document filed with, or produced by a court.

“A unique reference number greatly facilitates retrieval of the document from any system and any type of database or file system that would reside in the court or on an open or commercial system; and it would be consistent for all future retrieval systems that are developed.  In addition to easy retrieval and reference, there is a great possibility for URN:Lex to address a vexing problem of electronic information –  document recall.  Courts continually wish to identify and update documents that are incorrect or expired.  The URN:Lex approach allows notifications to be posted and/or distributed; and further allows for systems to be developed with persistent hyper-links such as the online legal publishers have created for statutory and case references”

Jim McMillan at NCSC, who maintains the blog is an incredible source of information on  court technology — I have known him for almost 20 years of his doing this work.