Getting the input required for your e-filing application

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Civil E-Filing: bar association meeting

The Illinois Supreme Court's e-filing standards require that a court's application to do e-filing include letters from the local bar association(s) which provide their "written  review of  the electronic filing system".  The standards are clear that their approval is not required, though all such reviews of Judici E-Filing to date have been favorable.  There are two ways to get this input:

The easier way (used by multiple Clerks):

Some Clerks have attended bar association meetings, provided information about Judici E-Filing, and then solicited a written review from the bar association as per the last step of the process below.  The following links have a variety of useful materials for this approach:

The harder way:  Judici can conduct a live online demo webinar showing the use of Judici E-Filing and the optional Courtlook service, followed by a question and answer session.  This is normally offered in conjunction with a regularly-scheduled bar association meeting, though attorneys who can't make the meeting can participate online.  It is expected that such a demo will take about an hour, depending on the number of questions.

To facilitate the bar association demo:

Criminal E-Filing

If you have an e-citation approach which includes storing the pdf files of tickets in Imaging, your e-filing application will have to include criminal e-filing. This requires written review from "the sheriff or law enforcement agency" of the tools your proposed e-citation vendor offers them.

If you also wish to get approved for non-traffic criminal e-filing, you'll also need a review from your SA and Public Defender.  We can arrange a separate demo for your SA/PD, since they use local software (e.g. PC JIMS Imaging) to submit e-filings rather than having to log into Judici as outside attorneys do.

Samples of written reviews used by other Clerks in their application to the AOIC to do criminal e-filing