As a participant in electronic court filing, and as a registered user of your E-Filing Service Provider (EFSP), you can expect to receive email notifications, from either your EFSP or the court’s Electronic Filing Manager (EFM)
Category: Electronic Filing
LASC E-Filing Outage on September 19th and 20th, 2019
9/20/19 3:00 PM – The court reporting that their system is back up and fully functioning. 9/20/19 1:25 PM – The court just distributed this public notice. 9/20/19 12:17 PM – The Court is reporting that they will be posting a public notice shortly. Any ex parte applications for Monday, and any filings with a […]
Court Auto-rejection of Documents Immediately After Submission
If you find that the court auto-rejects your filing within a few minutes of submission, that reflects that the e-filing system was unable to process your filing successfully, and it has not been sent to the court.
Initiate a New Case in Los Angeles Civil Court
These instructions are to Initiate a New Case in the Los Angeles Civil Courts—meaning this case is brand new, and does not exist yet in any court.
File on an Existing Case in Los Angeles Civil Court
These instructions are to File on an Existing Case in the Los Angeles Civil Courts—meaning this case already exists in the court system.
Pro Se and Self Litigant E-Filing Guide
Electronic filing can be an overwhelming experience. To help assist you with your filing, here are some of our frequently asked questions new filers ask to help you file quicker and easier. This information covers the states of California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Texas.
Update your Email Settings to Configure the Notifications you Receive
The email you receive is dependent on your User Preference settings. If you aren’t receiving notifications or are receiving too many, this is the place to customize your preferences, so you will want to make sure they are properly set up.
Compress / Reduce a PDF When Documents Exceed The File Size Limit
The courts impose a 25mb file size for PDF documents, and a 35MB limit for the entire filing. If you need to e-file a document, but the file size of your document exceeds the 25 MB file size limit enforced by the Courts, then you may need to do some work to reduce, compress, or optimize your file size. Otherwise, you may need to split your document into parts for filing.
Add a Case to Your Account
In order to file a document on an existing case, you must first Add a Case to your account. You have the option of searching by court and case number, or an Advanced Case Search by court and party name.
Create Serve Only
If you wish to have a document served electronically to any service contacts on a case, Serve Only is an option to use. When you click the Submit button, the document(s) data is sent to the court only. The court then sends Notification of Service emails directly to each of the service recipients, and it notifies us of this service to any of our customers.