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LegalXML GOVERNANCE

Steering Committee

The OASIS LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee coordinates the work of and manages allocated resources to Technical Committees in the Member Section. The Steering Committee is constituted by a combination of TC representatives and elected "at-large" representatives. Each TC selects its own representative to serve on the Steering Committee and the entire membership of the LegalXML Member Section elects three at-large representatives to the Steering Committee annually.

Rolly Chambers	Taylor Penry Rash & Riemann PLLC, and represents the American Bar Association
George Knecht	PC Intellect LLC
Robert O'Brien	Courts Administration Service
Monica Palmirani	Associate Professor of Computer Science and Law at Bologna University, School of Law, Italy

Rolly Chambers Rolly L. Chambers (rolly.chambers@tprr.com) is a partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina law office of Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP and devotes his practice to construction litigation and commercial matters. He has focused primarily on construction law and construction contract matters for over 15 years. He has substantial experience representing public and private owners, contractors, and construction materials suppliers in trials, arbitrations, and mediations. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section and Construction Industry Forum) and the North Carolina Bar Association (Construction Law Section and Litigation Section). He is the American Bar Association's representative to OASIS. Since 1999, Mr. Chambers has been an active contributor to the OASIS LegalXML Member Section. Mr. Chambers received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William & Mary, where he was an Executive Editor of the William & Mary Law Review.

George Knecht (george@pcintellect.com), representative to the LegalXML Steering Committee and Webmaster of the Court Filing Legal XML Technology Committee, currently owns and operates a web design and web application development company, PC Intellect LLC. In addition to those responsibilities that come with running a business, George continues to provide the company direction in the technology it chooses to develop and implement, and is extremely interested in the use of XML in the justice space.

Previously, as the eFiling Program Manager for the Clerk of the Superior Court in Maricopa County (Phoenix, AZ), George acted as the lead business analyst and IT project manager for the Superior Court's many eFiling pilot project efforts. In George's eight (8) years at the Clerk's office he played an instrumental role in the clerk's conversion from a paper record to an electronic court record with the implementation of electronic document management and the development and implementation of eFiling systems. He continues to serve as a co-chair of the OASIS Technical Committee that has developed the Electronic Court Filing 3.1 specification for the use of XML to support electronic filing and electronic service of court documents. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Master's in Public Administration and Criminal Justice.

Robert O'Brien has worked for the Courts Administration Service (formerly known as the Federal Court of Canada) since 1977, serving as court registrar at hearings, filing thousands of litigants' documents over the years and working closely with judges. Then in 1990, Robert began working with the IT staff to begin automating work processes, such as, management systems, web sites and e-filing, as the lead business analyst or user representative. Robert has been involved with the LegalXML eCourt Filings technical committee since 2001.

Robert is a representative on the Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA) Technology Committee, and he is a member of the embryonic Canadian Centre for Court Technology's (CCCT) Efiling Committee.

Monica Palmirani graduated in Mathematic, Ph.D. in Legal Informatics and IT Law, and has been teaching various courses including Legal Informatics, eGovernment, Legal drafting techniques, Legal XML.

She is member of CIRSFID, one of the main centres of excellence in Italy and one of the leading centres at international level for the area of computer science and law.

She is member of Ph.D. Programme in Legal Informatics and IT Law, of the Master in the Law of the New technologies, especially for the module regarding eGovernment. She leads the LEXML.it inside of wide European network. She is a member of the scientific committee of the LEX Summer School, organised to the European University Institute in Fiesole, oriented to divulgate the usage of Legal XML in the public offices respecting and guaranteeing the legal principles embedded in the legal document form.

The principal field of research is in Legislative and Legal Informatics, in particular she is expert of XML techniques for modeling legal documents both in structure and legal knowledge aspects. She is proficient of Legal Drafting techniques supported by the ICT and she manages several projects with the Public Administration (e.g. Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy, Senate of Italy, Authority of Privacy in Italy, European Parliament, Inter-America Bank for Development, United Nations) to improve legal quality, to design legal information system, to apply the point-in-time ICT techniques. She is a member of the AKOMA NTOSO project managed by the UN/DESA and oriented to promote XML standard for e-Parliament in Africa, as well as she is a part of the technical committee of standardisation process of CEN MetaLex Workshop (European XML legal standard) and of NormeInRete the government initiative for the standardisation of legal document in Italy. She dedicated attention also to the ontological aspects contributing to the definition of same sub-schema of the LKIF (Legal Knowledge Interchange Format) and to the logic formalism of the rules represented in the norms (LKIF-rule). Recently she is joined to a working group in the RuleML standardisation process in order to open a new track dedicated to Legal RuleML. Recently she was invited to take a lecture in Stanford University, School of Law, inside of an initiative promoted by CODEX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law, part of the Stanford Programme Research in Law, Science and Technology and spent the visiting professor period in NICTA - Brisbane, Australia.