Dean C. Merrill

Dean C. Merrill was a member of the original 1969 team assembled by U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery to design a computer-based case management system for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office. The team was co-directed by Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work, with Bill Hamilton serving as project manager at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. The resulting system, deployed January 1, 1971, became the Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS).²

On October 15, 1973, Merrill co-incorporated the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Hamilton at 1125 15th Street, N.W., Suite 6000, Washington, D.C. ILSR was a nonprofit corporation established to serve as the steward of the PROMIS software and to conduct empirical criminal justice research under LEAA funding.²

When INSLAW, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in January 1981 as the for-profit successor to ILSR, Merrill continued with the new entity as a Vice President. He held that position through at least April 1982, during the period when the company negotiated and executed its March 1982 implementation contract with the DOJ's Executive Office for United States Attorneys.²