I will soon be departing for Houston to attend the 2012 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting. This will be my third straight year to attend and my second year as a presenter. On Thursday, as part of the Computer and Technology Section’s “Adaptable Lawyer” track, Don Cruse and I will give a talk entitled… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: E-Filing
Hedges and Hawthorne to Speak on New TAMES System
Posted in Appellate Practice, Briefs, Procedure, TechnologyOn March 29, 2012, Fourteenth Court of Appeals Chief Justice Adele Hedges and Texas Supreme Court Clerk Blake Hawthorne will speak to the Austin Bar Civil Appellate Law Section on "The Texas Appeals Management and E-filing System: Making Our Appellate Courts More Efficient and Transparent." This talk goes along with an article Blake published in the most… Continue Reading
SCOTX to Hold Hearing on Uniform E-Filing System
Posted in Appellate Practice, TechnologyThis afternoon at 2:00, the Texas Supreme Court will hold a public hearing to explore the feasibility of a statewide uniform system for electronic court filings. The hearing will take place in the Supreme Court Courtroom and will be webcast live here. The Court is considering whether Texas ought to implement a system modeled to… Continue Reading
SCOTX: Attorneys Must E-File Effective 9/12/11
Posted in Appellate Practice, Supreme Court Orders, TechnologyTexas appellate e-filing continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Effective September 12, 2011, attorneys filing documents in the Texas Supreme Court must do so electronically. Pro se parties may e-file, or they may submit paper documents. View the Court’s latest e-filing order here. Don Cruse has broken down the new order over at the… Continue Reading
The Adaptable (Appellate) Lawyer
Posted in Appellate Practice, Briefs, Motions, Procedure, TechnologyI recently attended the 2011 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in San Antonio. As mentioned here before, the Bar asked me to come back as a presenter this year. It was quite an honor. My subject was e-filing in state and federal appellate courts. In conjunction with my talk, I published a short article in… Continue Reading
Texas Appellate E-Filing Goes Live
Posted in Announcements, Appellate Practice, TechnologyHere is the text of an e-mail I received from SCOTX Clerk Blake Hawthorne this morning, along with links he included in the message: Effective March 28, 2011, you may electronically file documents, pay your fees, and serve opposing counsel using the Texas.gov electronic filing system. To use the electronic filing system you must first choose… Continue Reading
E-Filing Rollout Rescheduled for March 28
Posted in Announcements, Appellate Practice, TechnologySo say the programming people, according to TexParte. See my last two posts for more information. That should give us plenty of time to try the system out before I speak on appellate e-filing at the 2011 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in San Antonio in late June. The State Bar has invited me… Continue Reading
E-Filing Launch Delayed
Posted in Announcements, Appellate Practice, TechnologyTexas.gov has pushed back the previously announced March 14, 2011 launch for Texas appellate e-filing, according to Texas Supreme Court Clerk Blake Hawthorne. In the process of addressing performance issues in Harris County, technical problems have arisen regarding electronic payments. A new roll-out date has yet to be announced.
At Last, E-Filing Is Coming to Texas Appellate Courts
Posted in Announcements, Appellate Practice, TechnologyFour years ago, I first asked when appellate courts would catch up on e-filing. Since then, the Fifth Circuit has successfully implemented an e-filing program, which has been mandatory for almost a year now. In state appellate courts, however, the process has been painfully slow. The Texas Supreme Court took a giant step in the… Continue Reading
SCOTX Amends E-Document Order
Posted in Appellate Practice, TechnologyThe Texas Supreme Court has amended its recent order requiring submission of documents in electronic form. Among the changes to the previous version are requirements that attorneys (1) provide an e-mail address when submitting e-copies, (2) e-mail courtesy copies to opposing lead counsel, and (3) register for CaseMail in cases in which they are lead… Continue Reading
More on Appellate E-Filing
Posted in Appellate Practice, TechnologyEarly this year, I accepted an offer from Texas Lawyer to write a quarterly column on technology issues affecting the publication’s namesake audience. The first article in this series—an update on appellate e-filing in Texas—appeared in this week’s issue. I am happy to report that Law.com picked it up as well. I’ve received some nice… Continue Reading
Appellate Court E-Filing Becoming a Reality
Posted in Appellate Practice, TechnologyThree years ago, I asked when appellate courts were going to catch up on e-filing. At the time, I noted some of the advantages e-filing presents over traditional methods and observed that appellate courts had been slow to meet the trend. Times are finally changing. Effective today, the Texas Supreme Court requires parties to e-mail… Continue Reading
Appellate E-Filing Update
Posted in TechnologyFollowing up on this post, about 300 Texas lawyers have petitioned the Court of Criminal Appeals to adopt a rule permitting the e-filing of petitions, motions, and other documents in death penalty cases. (UPDATE: Per this news report, the CCA has agreed to allow e-mail filingfor emergency motions in death penalty cases and other "extraordinary… Continue Reading
Lawyers to Push CCA for E-Filing in Death Penalty Cases
Posted in TechnologyAustin Lawyer Chuck Herring is circulating a petition to be submitted to the Court of Criminal Appeals (download PDF here), along with the following message: RE: Rule-Making Petition To Permit E-Filing in Death Penalty Cases You may have seen the extensive press reports concerning the recent actions of Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas… Continue Reading
What’s Going on at the CCA?
Posted in News & Politics, TechnologyI don’t practice criminal appellate law, and I don’t ordinarily follow the the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, but even I notice when the CCA makes front-page news for the wrong reasons. In case you haven’t heard, the media is lambasting the CCA (more specifically, Presiding Judge Sharon Keller) for refusing to keep the clerk’s… Continue Reading
When Will Appellate Courts Catch Up on E-Filing?
Posted in Appellate Practice, TechnologySince opening my practice, I have tried to take advantage of technology whenever possible. One of the best developments has been the advent of electronic court filing. Sitting at my desk, I can e-file a document for less than what it would cost to have a hard copy delivered to the Travis County Courthouse a… Continue Reading