~ Overview
~ Customers
~ News
~ Events
~ Partners
~ Management
~ Careers
Press
Press Releases 2006
Orange County, Florida Clerk of Courts Goes Live With eFiling
Clerk begins efiling for Complex Business Litigation Division cases with Tybera's efiling exchange
OREM, Utah and ORLANDO, Florida - May 16, 2006
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tybera Development Group, a leader in electronic filing solutions for courts, attorneys, and government agencies, today announced that the installation of its electronic filing exchange-eFlex, at the Orange County Clerk of Courts (OCCC) is now live. The efiling site is hosted internally by the OCCC and is free for attorneys to use and is currently accepting filings to its Complex Business Litigation Division.
The system will be owned and maintained by the Clerk and is expected to serve attorneys in the Orange County/Orlando area who file several thousand cases each year.
Attorneys and Pro Se Litigants need only an Internet browser to login to the Electronic Court Filing (ECF) site and fill out a Web form, attach documents or files and then send them to the court where the filing fee is automatically billed to their credit card or deducted from their debit account. Within minutes a digital receipt is returned to the filer as proof of the court's acceptance of the filing. Filers also have the option to prepare filings off-line, at their convenience using familiar products such as WordPerfect and MS Word, save to PDF, and then later logon to the ECF system and send their filings to the court.
Orange County has been anxious to provide efiling to attorneys for some time now and is pleased to offer this new service to its filers at no additional cost. The eFlex solution allows the court to decide whether or not convenience filing fees will be charged, and in which jurisdictions.
The primary goals of the Clerk were to accept filings (orders and notices) over the Internet from attorneys, judges, and court staff; the option of either charging convenience fees or not; the ability to pay the court filing fee electronically; integrate directly with the court's case management and document management systems (CMS & DMS); allow attorneys, case parties, judges, and court staff to view and print documents associated with an electronically filed case; provide for scanning of paper filed documents on cases initially filed electronically so that the entire case file is available electronically; electronically notify other attorneys and parties to the case when documents are filed; and implement an efiling solution that allows the Clerk to host and administer the system.
The benefits to the Clerk and Court of the Tybera system go beyond the potential revenue of simple convenience fees. The bigger picture is the money saved through direct integration of efiling to the CMS and DMS. The integration of the three systems reduces or eliminates manual data entry by clerks as the functions of accepting filings and their fees, storing them electronically, and then notifying attorneys of the case status is now completely automated.
Dallas Powell, President of Tybera, expressed his excitement at seeing the first live filings going through the court site by commenting, "We're glad that the site is now live and works as designed. It's nice to see that all of the efiling goals of the Clerk were met with eFlex. We certainly hope that its use continues to grow from here."
The OCCC continues to promote use of the system as well as plan for the addition of other jurisdictions.
About Tybera
Tybera's eFlex allows attorneys to use MS Word or WordPerfect to submit civil, criminal or juvenile court filings electronically. It is built on recommendations published by COSCA/NCSC, using the LegalXML/ECF-v1.1 proposal. eFilings are secured for document integrity, long term evidence protection and authentication with optional support for digital signatures. The court controls the collection of filing fees which are communicated to the CMS automatically and then reported back to the court accounting system and clerk's daily journal. Clerk review procedures can be automated or configured for manual intervention. Auto-conversion to PDF and TIFF with the ability to apply court seals, digitized signatures, and date & time stamp can be included as well.
Orange County Contact:
Carolyn M. Weber
ECF Project Manager
Orange County Clerk of Courts
407-836-6349
Carolyn.Weber@orange-clerk.org
Tybera Press Contact:
Norm Anderson
VP Sales and Marketing
Tybera
801-226-2746
nanderson@tybera.com
Archive