| U.S. District Court District of Oregon CM/ECF User Manual |
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The Utility menu allows registered users access to maintain their user account (Maintain Your Account), generate a report showing the user's activity in the system within a specified date range (View Your Transaction Log), verify a document by comparing the original electronic document stamp with the most recent (Verify a Document), and view mailing information for a case (Mailings menu). Court users have expanded menus which include case and docket editing menus.
Registered users have access through this link to update their street address, e-mail address information (including the addition or correction of any secondary e-mail addresses), select notification preferences, and alter their CM/ECF logins and passwords.
(a) Main Account Screen
This screen provides access to the registered user's name, office, street address, telephone, fax number and bar status fields. Users will not be able to modify the name, type or the bar status fields. If the attorney is hard linked to a firm record and needs to make a change to that firm name or address, he/she must contact court staff to sever the link before those changes can be completed. No modifications inserted by the user will be actually written to the database, however, until the user hits the Submit button at the bottom of this screen. If changes or modifications have been made to the street address information or telephone fields, on the next screen, the system will display a list of cases associated with that user. The user will be prompted to spread the new information to those cases or "Update All."
(b) E-Mail Information (See also Section 6)
To update a user's e-mail information, select the E-mail Information button on the Maintain User Account screen. No changes on this screen are written to the database, however, until the user selects the button Return to Account Screen and hits the Submit button located on the bottom of the main account screen.
- Primary e-mail address Registered users will see their e-mail address in this window.
- Send the notices specified below The system defaults to notices sent to the primary e-mail address. The attorney may specify additional addresses in the second window and elect to have the notices go to either the primary or secondary addresses or to both. An attorney may want to "uncheck" the primary box and check the secondary box when they are out of the office for an extended period.
- Send a notice for each filing The system defaults to sending notices to an attorney in every case in which he/she is involved as counsel of record. An attorney may also specify additional cases for notification to be received as "blind copies."
- Send a Daily Summary Report in my cases and the other cases listed above The user may elect to receive either a notice for each filing as entries are posted or receive a summary notice of case activity the following morning. The text of the Summary e-mail notification will display the docket event and the document number (including the hyperlink).
(c) More User Information
This screen permits the user to modify the court generated login and password fields. Passwords are limited to 8 characters in length. No changes on this screen are written to the database, however, until the user selects the button Return to Account Screen and hits the Submit button on the bottom of the main account screen.
(a) Legal Research
These menu items provide Internet links to access the designated resources:
- Westlaw
- Law Dictionary
- Medical Dictionary
(b) Verify a Document
This menu item verifies a document in a case.
(c) Mailings
Users may review Mailing Information for a Case, generate labels for a case and view a list of attorney user addresses.