
    RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM—COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
    Appellate Case No. 2015-002439
    Supreme Court of South Carolina.
    August 31, 2016
   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 Cherokee County. Effective September 13, 2016, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Cherokee County must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of fifing is excluded from the Pilot Program. The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows:

Clarendon Lee Greenville

Sumter Williamsburg Pickens

Spartanburg C hero kee — Effective September 13,2016.

Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Fifing 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-Fifing Portal.

s/Costa M. Pleicones

Costa M. Pleicones

Chief Justice of South Carolina  