In re Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program—Court of Common Pleas

ORDER

Pursuant 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 Lexington County. Effective September 5, 2017, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Lexington County 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 Georgetown Greenville Hampton

Horry Jasper Lee Oconee

Pickens Spartanburg Sumter Williamsburg

Lexington - Effective September 5, 2017

Attorneys 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 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.

/s/Donald W. Beatty

Donald W. Beatty Chief Justice of South Carolina