Tuesday, December 20, 2011

E-filing in courts is gaining momentum

The St. Louis Dispatch reports:
It will involve a cake, a request to use the formal fifth-floor courtroom in the Mel Carnahan courthouse, invitations with the court seal on it, and a paper shredder. Oh, and possibly a recording of the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey," which she would like to play as she feeds the first associate civil case filed from the past year through the shredder.

The party, on Jan. 3, marks the first official working day that the state considers an electronic court file as the "original" copy — no paper files are required.

"This is the advent of a whole new era of document management," Schweitzer said. "I never thought that document storage would get my blood going. But it does."


Change.