Internet Service ProjectIowa Supreme Court Commissions

Concept Briefing

IowAccess Advisory Council

March 9, 2005

Project Concept

• Provide the public online information regarding lawyers and shorthand reporters

• Provide online license-related services to lawyers and court reporters

• Provide online continuing legal education approval services to sponsors and lawyers

• Provide electronic reporting and interest payment services to trust account depositories

Background Information• Court Commissions administers matters for five

Supreme Court commissions or boards– CLE: annual reporting, fee payment, seminar approval– Client Security: annual reporting, fee payment– Shorthand Board: annual reporting, fee payment– Lawyer Trust: interest payments and grant

administration– Grievance: ethics complaint processing

• Principal data depository regarding lawyers, shorthand reporters

• All transactions performed by paper transmission, manual payment processing and data entry

• No consolidated information regarding lawyers or shorthand reporters available to the public online

Project Overview

• Develop external web interface to commission services for the public, lawyers, shorthand reporters, CLE sponsors and trust account depositories

• Convert existing Access database to Oracle to support additional load from the external interface

• Develop internal interface to the Oracle database for staff administration of commission operations

Planning Costs

• External Interface Planning - $30,000 (ITE)

• Internal Interface Planning - $47,750 (Cisco)

• Court Commissions to contribute $38,875

• Court Commissions Requests $38,875 in Support from IowAccess for planning phase

Principal Constituents

• Public – consumers of legal services

• Over 8,000 active Iowa lawyers

• Over 465 certified shorthand reporters

• Over 450 trust account depository institutions

• Over 200 CLE event sponsors

Public Module Components

• Searchable Roster of Iowa Lawyers and Shorthand Reporters

• View Business Address and Telephone; Date of Admission; License Status; Field of Practice Qualifications; Summary of Public Discipline Imposed, with Link to Source Document

Attorney Module Components• Login Screen, Shared with Other Modules• Personal Information Screen• Annual CLE and Client Security Reports and

Fee Payments• Payment Record• CLE Transcript• Application for Exempt Status Screen• Application for Reinstatement Screen• Accreditation Application

Sponsors’ CLE Module Components

• Login Screen

• Sponsor Information Screen

• Accreditation Application

• Accreditation Fee Payment

• CLE Event Approval Status

• Fee Payment Record

Shorthand Reporter Module Components

• Login Screen

• Personal Information Screen

• Annual Report and Fee Payment

• Interim Report

• Fee Payment Record

• Application for Exempt Status

• Application for Reinstatement

Electronic Reporting by Lawyer Trust Account Depositories

• Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for Interest Submissions

• Reporting in Excel or Delimited Format

• Direct Load of Electronic Reports to Database