Legal XML
Legal XML is a non-profit organization developing open standards for legal documents and related applications.[1] The building block for Legal XML standards is eXtensible Markup Language ("XML").
LegalXML is a member section within OASIS the not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the LegalXML agenda, using the open OASIS technical process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. LegalXML produces standards for electronic court filing, court documents, legal citations, transcripts, criminal justice intelligence systems, and others.
OASIS members participating in LegalXML include lawyers, developers, application vendors, government agencies and members of academia.
Current LegalXML Technical Committees (TCs)
- OASIS LegalDocumentML TC: Models, represents, and manages legal documents as authorial, authentic, valid and persistent digital resources.
- OASIS LegalRuleML TC: Enabling legal arguments to be created, evaluated, and compared using rule representation tools.
- OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC: Using XML to create and transmit legal documents among attorneys, courts, litigants, and others.
- OASIS LegalXML eNotarization TC: Developing technical requirements to govern self-proving electronic legal information