E-Filing Arrives In Cook County - With A Gold Rush
From Crain's Chicago Business
There's finally some good news in the arcane but needlessly expensive world of the Cook County courts, in which almost all of us eventually end up one way or another.
After years of testing, posturing and sundry delays, electronic filing of documents is about to arrive.
“My expectation is that it will be approved sooner rather than later,” said Joe Tybor, spokesman for the Illinois Supreme Court, which has to sign off on the matter. The days of having to kill a forest to file a deed on your house, adopt a child or probate a will are about to end.
But this being Cook County, nothing is simple or clear-cut when it comes to big money. So let me update you on a story I've been coveringabout who will get the contract to provide the electronic system used to file millions of documents a year — at a fee of up to $2.95 per document.
The main new thing is that both Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown and the vendor she wants, Mobile, Ala.-based On-Line Information Services Inc., finally are answering questions about why it should be handed a potentially very, very lucrative deal without public bidding.
Read more in our daily News Update...
From Crain's Chicago Business
There's finally some good news in the arcane but needlessly expensive world of the Cook County courts, in which almost all of us eventually end up one way or another.
After years of testing, posturing and sundry delays, electronic filing of documents is about to arrive.
“My expectation is that it will be approved sooner rather than later,” said Joe Tybor, spokesman for the Illinois Supreme Court, which has to sign off on the matter. The days of having to kill a forest to file a deed on your house, adopt a child or probate a will are about to end.
But this being Cook County, nothing is simple or clear-cut when it comes to big money. So let me update you on a story I've been coveringabout who will get the contract to provide the electronic system used to file millions of documents a year — at a fee of up to $2.95 per document.
The main new thing is that both Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown and the vendor she wants, Mobile, Ala.-based On-Line Information Services Inc., finally are answering questions about why it should be handed a potentially very, very lucrative deal without public bidding.
Read more in our daily News Update...