Two more counties will begin requiring mandatory e-filing later this month.
Chester and Fairfield are joining a list of counties in the state which require e-filing, beginning April 24.
The two counties will require all common pleas cases commenced or pending “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 become the 32nd and 33rd counties in the state to require digital filing.
The last county to begin e-filing prior to this was Union County, which began on March 20.
Mandatory digital filing was established by a South Carolina Supreme Court order dating back to December 2015.
Attorneys should check the South Carolina Filing Policies and Guidelines and the training materials available on the e-Filing Portal at http://www.sccourts.org/efiling/.
The website also indicates which filings are exempted.
The only counties in the state that have not begun e-filing are Abbeville, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Lancaster, Marion, Marlboro and Orangeburg.
Tonnya Kohn, the interim director of South Carolina Court Administration told South Carolina Lawyers Weekly in February that her office plans to have every county using e-filing by February of next year.
