1st DCA Mandates Electronic Filing for Attorneys

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Florida 1st District Court of Appeal – the state's first line of appeal for all workers' compensation cases – will mandate the electronic filing of all documents by attorneys beginning Sept. 1.The court announced the requirement in an order issued Aug. 2 and warned it soon will stop mailing paper copies of opinions and related documents to registered users of its eDCA system.The order, in effect, requires e-filing by all attorneys, who must be registered users of the eDCA system. Chief Judge Paul M. Hawkes said in an interview th...