Electronic filing has arrived. It saves money, time and makes for the efficient use of professional resources. What follows is a brief review of some of its features and benefits, as gathered from recent publications and reports of the Unified Court System.
The Unified Court System has, over the course of the past decade, made an ongoing commitment to the implementation of e-filing. The program, begun as a voluntary pilot program in 1999, has grown to the point where over 10 years later almost 1.3 million documents have been e-filed in approximately 300,000 cases. While not yet of the scale of the federal courts (where e-filing is generally mandatory and it is estimated that over six million documents are filed every month), e-filing in New York will inevitably continue to grow.
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