In re Expansion Elec. Filing Pilot Program-Court of Common Pleas

809 S.E.2d 512, 422 S.C. 45

Opinion

**45Pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the South Carolina Constitution,

IT IS ORDERED that the Pilot Program for the Electronic Filing (E-Filing) of documents in the Court of Common Pleas, which was established by Order dated December 1, 2015, is expanded to include Greenwood County. Effective February 6, 2018, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Greenwood must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of filing is excluded from the Pilot Program. The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows:

Aiken	Allendale	Anderson	Bamberg
Barnwell	Beaufort	Cherokee	Clarendon
Colleton	Edgefield	Georgetown	Greenville
Hampton	Horry	Jasper	Kershaw
Laurens	Lee	Lexington	McCormick
Newberry	Oconee	Pickens	Saluda
Spartanburg	Sumter	Williamsburg
Greenwood-
Effective February
6,2018

**46Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Filing Policies and Guidelines, which were adopted by the Supreme Court on October 28, 2015, and the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page at http://www.sccourts.org/efiling/ to determine whether any specific filings are exempted from the requirement that they be E-Filed. Attorneys who have cases pending in Pilot Counties are strongly encouraged to review, and to instruct their staff to review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.

/s/ Donald W. Beatty

Donald W. Beatty

Chief Justice of South Carolina