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Law Practice

Mar. 27, 2007

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking

Love it or hate it, e-filing of court documents will soon be required in California. Most lawyers who have switched love the new electronic system. But not many have tried.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SANTA ANA - Early in the new year, Orange attorney Dennis Hartmann sat at a hotel bar sipping a drink, watching the waves swirl in and out against a Rio de Janeiro beach. Tapping lazily on his laptop computer, he filed a post-trial document with the Orange County Superior Court.
      "I love it," Hartmann said about the court's electronic fili...

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