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Judiciary Electronic Filing System
Documentation and
Information
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has approved a plan to make electronic filing mandatory in the
Special Civil Part of the Law Division of the New Jersey
Superior Court. The two-year plan is outlined in the Notice to
the Bar dated March 16, 2009 and the necessary relaxation and
supplementation of the Rules of Court are set forth in the
Supreme Court Order dated March 10, 2009.
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JEFIS Updates |
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New JEFIS Services Application: Effective December 29, 2009 a new JEFIS Services Application
will be in production and it will include the following
features:
- online access for the attorney to the electronic case
jackets for his/her cases;
- access to the balance in your attorney collateral
account as of 4:30 p.m. the previous day and to your monthly
statements;
- the ability to search for the filing status of all documents and pleadings sent;
- access to court notices sent to you for the last 60
days; and
- free access to ACMS for DC docket-type cases (previously
provided via a separate URL link).
The new JEFIS Services Application will be accessible for
registered JEFIS users from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, Monday through
Friday via a link on the JEFIS Home Page. Access to JEFIS for
the filing of pleadings and other documents will continue to
be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, subject to periods
of unavailability for preventive or remedial maintenance,
security measures against intrusions or the capacity of the
system. As always, filings received after the close of
Judiciary business (4:30pm) will be deemed received on the
next court day and processed.
July 1 , 2010 Deadline for Conversion to New JEFIS
Attorney Filing Manager: Please note that access to
the Legacy Electronic Filer, which transmits case data in an
ASCII file format, will be terminated as of July 1, 2010. The
few law firms who still use this older filing system are
therefore urged to convert as soon as possible to the new
JEFIS Attorney Filing Manager, which requires case data to be
in an XML file format. Please refer to the Specifications for
Electronic Filings and the Attorney Manual for more
information.
Security Certificates: On April 22, 2009 the NJ Judiciary installed a Verisign Trusted Root certificate within our infrastructure to enhance the security of the JEFIS application. Please refer to the Certificate Replacement Procedure for more information. |
Information relating to the Statewide Electronic Filing Program
in the Special Civil Part is available for viewing and downloading
from this web site. These include the JEFIS Participation
Registration Form, a Participation Agreement. a copy of the Supreme
Court order that relaxes or supplements twenty-one Rules of Court to
enable electronic filing, a technical document entitled “Specifications for Electronic Filings," an Attorney Manual, and a
manual for using the ACMS Public Access application. If you are
interested in participating in the Judiciary's Electronic Filing
Program, please follow the links below to download and review this
material.
Note: Some of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
PDF documents preserve the look and feel of the original print
documents. However, in order to view PDF documents, you must install
the Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which is available free of charge from the Adobe
web site. The web site also provides a set of free tools that allow
visually disabled users to read documents in Adobe PDF format.
The Participation Agreement contains a detailed explanation of
the Electronic Filing Program, instructions on how to register with
the Superior Court Clerk’s Office and a description of the hardware
and software needed. Please read the Agreement carefully because it
also sets forth the responsibilities of the Judiciary and the
attorneys who participate in the program. The “Specifications for
Electronic Filings” is intended for the use of your technical
support staff in assessing the benefits and costs of electronic
filing for your law firm. The Attorney Manual is a comprehensive
reference guide for attorneys participating in the JEFIS
program.
Your completed Participation Agreement and Form should be
forwarded to the JEFIS Unit, Office of the Superior Court Clerk,
P.O. Box 971, Trenton, NJ 08625. The Participation Agreement must be
signed by each individual attorney who will participate in the
program and an authorized representative of the law firm. The
Participation Form is self-explanatory and a separate copy must be
completed for each participating attorney.
Please contact the Superior Court Clerk's Office at (609)
421-6100 if you have any questions after reviewing the JEFIS
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Attorney Participation Agreement