I am honored to serve as the Presiding Justice of the First Department during the nascence of paperless state appellate practice. In 1999, when the New York legislature created the first pilot program to test electronic filing of documents in a small number of civil trial parts, most attorneys saved documents on disks, rather than “flash drives.” At that time, we used our cell phones for the sole purpose of making phone calls. By mid-decade, many were looking for the “on” button on a new invention called the iPod. Imagine, TiVo and Facebook were non-existentand “Wiiiiii!”…well that was something that children exclaimed as they went sledding, or down a slide. By contrast, this year, my four- and six-year-old grandchildren asked Santa for more “apps” for their iPad and for expanded access to WiFi.
The worldwide technological revolution has seen e-filing gain widespread acceptance in New York state courts, culminating in the enactment of a 2009 law that has made three important changes.
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