How do attorneys Register for CM/ECF and Get Trained?
Once an attorney has appeared in five or more bankruptcy cases in a calendar year, that attorney is required to file documents electronically using CM/ECF from that day forward, including succeeding years. CM/ECF offers many advantages to practitioners, such as filing documents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from their offices, and receiving same day emails (“Notice of Electronic Filing,” or “NEF”) with a link to a filed document when other parties file documents or the court enters an order or other event on a docket. a) CM/ECF Training is Mandatory and Essential – An attorney can only use CM/ECF in the Central District after court training, however the training may have been completed in another district. It is essential to be thoroughly trained, as attorneys directly add documents to a case docket, including providing the description of the docket entry that is read by court staff and the public. This means that when a mistake is made, that mistake remains on the docket unless a cour
