Litigation
May 18, 2016
E-filing is coming to superior courts
The Judicial Council seeks comment on whether state court e-filers should have until close of business day, or midnight, to file their documents. By Don Willenburg
Don Willenburg
Partner
Gordon & Rees LLP
appellate law, litigation, special master
1111 Broadway Ste 1700
Oakland , CA 94607
Phone: (510) 463-8600
Fax: (510) 984-1721
Email: dwillenburg@grsm.com
Stanford Univ Law School
Don is chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group in Oakland, and an attorney member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council. The views expressed are his own.
As technology changes, the form and filing of court documents changes. No more bluebacks. No more sealing wax. Those items are old news, but the new news: soon, no more bicycle or motorcycle messengers flying to court to make a filing deadline. E-filing is coming to superior courts, and is already present in most state Courts of Appeal. (The Supreme Court may be the last court in California to accept e-filings.) It will not be ma...
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