Getting Started? 
Getting Started? Anyone can e-File if they have an account. If you are an attorney licensed by the court you can request an account as an attorney. If you are not a licensed attorney you can still get an account but you will be registered as someone that represents themself. This is known as a Pro Se filer. There are other types of parties such as Pro Hac that can get an account, but currently there is no option to register as an interested party.
Currently the court is not charging to register. Once you have registered there is no additional e-filing fee at this time, however the standard court fees are still applicable. Please refer to the courts web page to review the filing fees charged by the court.
Go to the e-filing website and look for the link to register for e-filing. This link will take you to the e-filing login screen.
On the login screen page you will see the instructions "If you have not signed
in before, please request a user account.". Click on the button that looks like this. 
. This will take you
through
a series of screens that will ask you questions. The first screen will ask you to review the Terms
of Usage agreement established by the court. To continue you must select the radio button that you agree
to the agreement then presss the Next button.
After you have read and agreed to the terms of usage, you will be asked to identify your user role.
The first option is a "Registered Filer" and this is for the Pro Se filer and all of the other user roles require an user ID number known as an attorney PIN.
Note: if you ever intend to e-File as an attorney, then do not use the Registered Filer user role. Click Next. Each user is associated with a company. For example,
if you are an attorney and you belong to a law firm you would select the name of that law firm if
it already exists in the list. The pull-down option contains the organizations currently registered in eFlex.
If your organization is not listed click the second radio button and type in your law firm's name and then click Submit.
The next screen has several questions to fill out. An asterisk next to a field indicates that the information for that field is required. You choose your own username and password. Your username must be unique. If the username you enter is not unique when you submit your request you will be prompted to select a different username. Once all the information is completed, a request to approve your account will be given to the Administrator. As soon as the Administrator approves your account you will receive an email message at the email address you entered with your registration information.
For a training schedule please refer to the courts e-filing website. Many attorneys find that this system is not unlike other systems. You may find that reading the online documentation is enough information to get your work done.
You can initiate several types of cases through the e-filing system and e-File follow-up filings on those case types. When you are not sure if you can e-File on a particular case when you select file to an existing case you can type the case number and a participants last name and press submit. The e-filing system will query the case management system to see if you can file on this case and if you cannot it will return an error otherwise it will allow you to continue e-filing on that case.
The e-filing system is browser based. You do not need to install any special e-filing software. You do need a computer that is connected to the web and has a browser installed. You can use Firefox from Mozilla, Internet Explorer from Microsoft, or any other browser that has been released in the last three years. It is anticipated that your computer will have a wordprocessor such as Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. You can even create your documents using WordPad, a free word processing tool that comes free with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It really does not matter what operating system you use. Some might use the Macintosh or Linyx operating system. You just need to prepare your documents, convert them to PDF, and then use the browser to submit your documents.
We recommend that you use a high speed internet
connection. The system will work using a dial-up modem, but the challenge is that
when you need to up-load or down-load large documents to the court. A dial-up
modem is more likely to time-out or disconnect and in addition you
will most likely be frustrated on how slow the system will respond.
Note: Uploading documents will be slow. Most internet
connections have faster download speeds than upload speeds. That is because most people on the web are downloading information
rather than uploading information. The upload speed can be 3 to 5 times slower than the download speed. If you are interested in
checking your bandwidth speed you can do so at one of these links. These links are not supported by the court and are for your convenience only.