FAL 3

The Find-A-Lawyer 3 project (FAL 3) started on 15 October 2015 and ran for 18 months. FAL 3 aimed to offer the necessary resources for the CCBE to focus on improvements in the FAL 1 Search Engine, the lawyer-search function now housed on the European Commission’s e-justice portal. It aimed to also provide resources for a feasibility study about new functionalities which currently appear in other lawyers’ search engines. At the same time, FAL 3 aimed to fill in the time gap between the delivery of the FAL 2 tool (verification of a lawyer’s role in electronic proceedings) and the go-live date of that project – during that period, the CCBE undertook the hosting of FAL 2, provided helpdesk support to participating bars and newcomers, and performed integration testing with other electronic systems such as e-CODEX. During the FAL 3 implementation period, the CCBE also attempted to achieve full coverage of FAL 1 and majority coverage among its member bars of FAL 2.