The document - and Heartland's own self - celebrating promotional efforts - make
absolutely clear that Heartland is a lobbyist, and given that its favourite client through the years has been the tobacco
industry, we know
for sure it's a lobbyist with no particular
standards.
The LOC is dedicated to using open
standards which cater to no one organization or group of organizations to uniformly satisfy the complex needs of the legal
industry based on 5 basic principles: keep it simple; make it unambiguous; diverge from existing formats as little as
absolutely necessary; only ask
for information the law firm is typically able to provide from their financial system; and meet the needs of corporations, law firms and legal
industry software vendors to the maximum extent possible consistent with the first four criteria.