Open Access offers innovative software specifically designed to assist judges and other judicial officers in effectively and expeditiously managing their ever-increasing caseloads. Electronically filed and scanned documents are accessible to judicial officers via eICMS at any time of any day and from any personal computer.

Open Access is integrated with ISD Corporation's eICMS, and is programmed to ascertain which cases are scheduled for a hearing or other court appearance on a judicial officer's upcoming calendar. The software performs an automated sweep of the case data in eICMS, retrieves all relevant information the judicial officer needs to review.

As a judicial officer is reviewing a case, he or she is able to make notes regarding the case - a feature useful for legal research attorneys and law clerks as well. This eliminates the need to share one paper file and enables research attorneys and law clerks to transmit their case notes to a judicial officer prior to his or her review of the case. This 'note' feature is especially useful in court at the time of a hearing. Judicial officers can refer to their notes while the matter is pending and the attorneys are present in court.

Open Access allows for easy viewing of a court docket, allowing judicial officers to determine quickly if a document has been filed by a party and at what time. This feature helps eliminate continuances of hearings due to a filed document not being placed in the court's paper file, because a party claims to have filed a document that is not yet in the court file or in instances that the court file cannot be located.

Open Access, which is fully integrated with ISD Corporation's other eICMS products and designed specifically for judicial officers, legal research attorneys and law clerks, is unsurpassed by any other software product available.