The Texas Supreme Court made statewide courts start cutting paper. Now to “lead by example,” it’s letting lawyers go paperless all the way in Supreme Court filings, said Blake Hawthorne, clerk of the court. But the high court’s move won’t prevent other courts from enforcing local rules that still require attorneys to file paper copies.
The Supreme Court on Jan. 14 eliminated its local rule that required lawyers who e-file also to send two to four paper copies, depending on the type of filing. Pro se litigants can still paper file, noted Hawthorne.
