LegalXML Committees and Specifications

Active Committees

LegalXML technical committees that are actively developing new specifications and encourage contributions to future specifications and standards.

Electronic Court Filing (ECF)

Using XML to create and transmit legal documents among attorneys, courts, litigants, and others.

OASIS Standards

Electronic Court Filing 4.01 ( PDFZIP)

Committee Drafts / Specifications

Electronic Court Filing Version 5.0
Electronic Court Filing Web Services Service Interaction Profile 5.0
Electronic Court Filing 4.0 Web Services Service Interaction Profile 2.01

LegalDocumentML

Advancing worldwide best practices for the use of XML in legal document

OASIS Standards

Akoma Ntoso Version 1
Akoma Ntoso Naming Convention Version 1 ( PDFZIP)

LegalRuleML

Enabling legal arguments to be created, evaluated, and compared using rule representation tools

OASIS Standards

LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1

Litigant Portal

Developing technical standards for the interfaces of litigant portal modules, to help potential litigants without legal representation overcome the barriers of cost and complexity

Committee Drafts / Specifications

Litigant Portal Exchange Version 1.0 ( PDF)

Technical Committee Process

The OASIS Technical Committee process governs the formation and operations of technical committees, including the development of specifications and standards.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

The OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy governs the treatment of intellectual property in the production of specifications and deliverables by OASIS Open.

Completed Committees

LegalXML technical committees that are no longer meeting or developing and maintaining specifications.

eContracts

Enabling the efficient creation, maintenance, management, exchange, and publication of contract documents and terms

Committee Drafts / Specifications

eContracts Version 1 ( PDF)

eNotarization

Developing technical requirements to govern self-proving electronic legal information

Committee Drafts / Specifications

eNotarization Markup Language (ENML) Version 1.0 ( PDF)

Integrated Justice

Facilitating the exchange of data among justice system branches and agencies for criminal and civil cases

Committee Drafts / Specifications

Integrated Justice Exchange Document Methodology, Naming, and Design Rules (MNDR) for GJXDM v3.0.3

OASIS eGovernment and Legal Standards

OASIS also develops and publishes standards for eGovernment and other industries.