Posted: 5/9/2008
Chief Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr. signed a General Order regarding the adoption of Transcript Filing Procedures for all transcripts filed with the court beginning May 15, 2008. The order can be viewed here.
Administration
CM/ECF or PACER
Login and/or Registration
- LOG IN TO CM/ECF
- CM/ECF Registration Form This is a large file
- Email Update Form
- Forgot your CM/ECF password?
- Log in to PACER
- Register for PACER access
- Forget your PACER password?
Policies & Procedures
- General Order Regarding Electronic Filing of Transcripts
- Advisory on Mandatory Use of CM/ECF
- General Order, In Re: Procedural Rules for Electronic Filing in Civil and Criminal Cases
- Administrative Policies and Procedures for Electronic Filing in Civil and Criminal Cases
- CM/ECF Certificate of Non-Compliance Form
- Order Regarding Electronic Filing Segment of CM/ECF
- Filing of Documents in the Austin Division
- Local Rule CV-5 and Local Rule CR-49
- Civil Attorney Events List
- Criminal Attorney Events List
Training
- Version 3.1 CM/ECF Updates New!
- Attorney User's Manual
- Computer-Based Training Course
- "CM/ECF: The Attorney's Perspective"
The links below are self-running executable files of Adobe Captivate movies. Click on the link and select "Save" from the "File Download" window. A window will open to allow you to save the file to a location on your local hard drive. Please remember where you save the file!. Since these files are rather large, it may take a while for the download to complete. When complete, go to the folder where you saved the file and uncompress, or "unzip" the file. Double-click on the .exe file to play the movie.
- Attaching Your Pleadings and Attachments This is a large file
- Civil Events Overview This is a large file
- Criminal Events Overview This is a large file
- Filing a Joint Motion This is a large file
General
Please note that you may e-file at any time, but CM/ECF support (ECFSupportDesk) is only offered Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CST, excluding court holidays. No after hours support is available. When relevant, please include the Case Number and the Judge's initials in the Subject: line of all emails to the court.
All admitted attorneys are required to register to file electronically and are required to update their email addresses, mailing address, and phone number online by logging into CM/ECF. In order to receive your Notices of Electronic Filing on your cases, you must ensure that your email addresses are up-to-date at all times.
Attorneys and other recipients the attorney has designated to receive e-mail notices are sent e-mail using the bcc (blind carbon copy) address field. The e-mail will be addressed to "cmecf_notices@txwd.uscourts.gov” and the e-mail will be from "txw_usdc_notice@txwd.uscourts.gov”. Attorneys must ensure these addresses are not blocked or marked as spam. Attorneys are also responsible for ensuring their e-mail box does not become full and cause e-mail notices to be rejected.
Please note that some of the files available are VERY large and may take several minutes to download to your computer, depending upon your internet connection.
