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 Laurens and Newberry Counties. Effective January 16, 2018, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Laurens and Newberry Counties must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of filing is excluded from the Pilot Program. The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows: Aiken
Allendale
Anderson
Bamberg
Barnwell
Beaufort
Cherokee
Clarendon
Colleton
Edgefield
Georgetown
Greenville
Hampton
Horry
Jasper
Kershaw
Lee
Lexington
McCormick
Oconee
Pickens
Saluda
Spartanburg
Sumter
Williamsburg
Laurens and Newberry-Effective January 16, 2018
Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Filing Policies and Guidelines, which were adopted by the Supreme Court on October 28, 2015, and the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page 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-Filing Portal page. /s/ Donald W. Beatty
Donald W. Beatty
Chief Justice of South Carolina