The Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system, the envy of court systems worldwide for more than a decade, reaches an important milestone in early 2012 as the requirements-gathering phase for its Next Generation concludes.
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Nearly six million docket entries are made on CM/ECF each month, and virtually all courts now accept or require electronic filings. In those courts, 51 percent of all docket entries are made by attorneys, not court staff, resulting in cost containment and savings.
More than 600,000 attorneys have filed case documents using CM/ECF, and attorneys currently are filing nearly 2.5 million documents via the Internet each month. In bankruptcy courts, attorneys now perform over 90 percent of all case-opening work
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