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Record Levels of E-filing in Harris County District Courts!

Here is a lette from Ken Ollive, Chief Deputy for Court Administration in the Harris County District Clerk's Office regarding e-filing:

Good afternoon Judges,


Yesterday, we reached a milestone in the District Clerk’s Office. At present we have two Courts with e-filing Orders, two Courts with e-filing Orders after review, and 1 Court with e-filing Orders regarding Ike Cases.

In January of 2009 we averaged 260 e-filings a day. Yesterday, January 19, 2009, we processed 997 e-filings. As you know, our office spent $710,000 last year imaging paper-filed documents in civil cases alone. We expect to spend $796,000 in 2010. Every new e-filing assists in driving those costs down and we truly appreciate each of your consideration. Our office actually set another milestone a while back, in that we set the record for the fastest processing time of an electronic filing – 26 SECONDS! Our closest competitor took over 3 minutes. That is a testament to the hard working clerks we have in our intake areas who process e-filings with great professionalism. In fact, our office routinely processes e-filings THREE times faster than a paper-filed document. Thank you for your partnership and for your consideration to our taxpayers


Ken Olive
Chief Deputy - Court Admin.
for Loren Jackson, District Clerk
Harris County Texas

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Highest Daily Total for E-Filing Recorded on Friday 1-15-2010!

On Friday, January 15, 2010, TexasOnline reported its highest e-filing rate so far - -746 filings in one day (which is a lot) for Harris County District Courts!

We're saving trees and saving taxpayer money!  Here's a note I got from Ruth at e-filing in the clerk's office.

We wanted to thank you for your contribution. Friday we made our highest filing rate so far-746 which is a lot of eFiling…..thank you so much for your help 




Thank you and have a Wonderful Day

Ruth Ann McDugle

Manager, Civil Bureau

Civil/Family/Juvenile Courts and support areas

Loren Jackson, Harris County District Clerk

713-755-5939 Fax 713-755-8923

View our Website at:www.hcdistrictclerk.com

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Twittering Juries?

Great article on social networking sites and juries.

College-Bulletin-Fall-09.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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LegalFront Article about Free Legal Tech training to Legal Aid Providers

Here's a link to the the Fall 2009 issue of LegalFront, the magazine of the Pro Bono/Legal Services arm of the State Bar of Texas.  On page 6 of this .pdf is a good article about Free Technology Training being provided to Texas legal aid providers.  It is amazing what technology can do for the provision of low cost or pro bono legal services.

Legal Front, Vol 10, No. 4


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