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15 verbatim requirements from Eleventh Circuit administrative order 03-02.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the operative section of Eleventh Circuit administrative order 03-02, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • Verilaw System - a web site specifically created by Verilaw Technologies, Inc. for 4 the electronic service, delivery, and storage of documents in asbestos cases litigated in Dade County, Florida. The web site will contain a Master Docket and individual dockets for each asbestos case. C. Effect of Electronic Service Electronic service shall be considered to substitute conventional service for registered users. D. Conventional Filing and Service • Conventional Filing: Electronic service via the Verilaw System shall be conducted in addition to conventional filing of the documents with the clerk of court. The clerk’s filing record will be the only determination of whether a document has been properly filed. • All parties must serve the initial complaint by traditional process of service in accordance with the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and applicable Florida laws. E. Appearance of Document(s) All parties must adhere to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and Florida laws in the drafting of all documents in asbestos cases. Documents that are electronically served must be exact copies of the document filed with the clerk with the exception of technological changes as discussed below. • All Documents Filed Under Seal a. If any part of a document to be served is under seal, the party serving the document shall serve electronically only the portion that is not under seal 5 with appropriate indication of the portion that has been conventionally filed under seal with the court reflected in the electronically served portion of the document. The portion of the document under seal shall be filed with the clerk of court in paper form. b. If the sealed portion(s) of the document is so substantial that the balance of the document is essentially unintelligible or the entire document is under seal, the entire document may be filed in paper form with the clerk of court and no electronic service of the document is required. However, a notice of filing under seal in paper form shall be served electronically. • A party serving exhibits that are real objects or otherwise not readily susceptible to electronic service and/or viewing shall electronically serve a notice of filing detailing the exhibit served and the alternate manner of service. F. Electronic Service of Orders and Other Papers by the Court. Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.090 requires that the court receive the approval of the Florida Supreme Court to electronically serve orders and other papers by the court. Such approval is currently pending. • Pending Approval No party or court personnel shall electronically serve an order or other paper by the court. Verilaw has agreed that registered users may post orders and other papers by the court on the Verilaw system at no cost. However, all parties must continue to serve via conventional service all orders and other papers by the court until notified otherwise. • No party in an action shall notice a deposition without first contacting all counsels of record in the case to clear available times. All parties shall cooperate to facilitate the discovery process, avoid conflicts, and to keep court intervention in discovery disputes to a minimum. • Parties setting motion matters shall communicate with the court regarding hearing date and time. Thereafter, all documents related thereto shall be filed and served consistent with the procedures in this order. The moving party shall then make certain that the matter is properly noticed in the applicable case calendar with the 7 date, time, location, and type of event. • The court may use the calendar system to schedule any hearing or conference. D. Bulletin Board As part of the web site, Verilaw shall establish for each individual asbestos case, as well as for the Master Docket, an electronic Bulletin Board to facilitate communication between and amongst counsels. Verilaw shall provide a plaintiffs’ Bulletin Board and a defendants’ Bulletin Board that will be accessible only by relevant plaintiffs’ counsels or defense counsels, as applicable. III. ELECTRONIC SERVICE PROCEDURES A. Verilaw System Access Access to the Verilaw System will be limited to registered users only. There will be no public access to the Verilaw System. • All firms litigating in asbestos cases shall become registered users of the Verilaw System no later than fourteen (14) days after entry of this Order. All firms shall pay an initial set up fee of $350 per firm to register. The check should be made out to “Verilaw Technologies, Inc.” and sent to 400 East Lancaster Avenue, Suite 300, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087, c/o Dade County Asbestos Litigation. Verilaw requires specific data from each law firm to make the system operational. Verilaw will collect this data electronically. Within seven (7) days of the date of this Order, Verilaw will contact all law firms with instructions on how to submit the necessary data. If Verilaw does not contact a firm, the firm should contact Chris Huff, a Verilaw representative, at (610) 688-1926(X3603). • When the Verilaw System has been designed and implemented for registered users, the court will issue an order notifying all parties that electronic service shall be via the Verilaw System after an activation date provided in the order. • New firms that become counsel of record in any present asbestos case or file new asbestos cases in Dade County, after the effective date of this order, shall become registered users of the Verilaw System no later than fourteen (14) days after 8 initiation of the lawsuit as a plaintiff or no later than fourteen (14) days after service of the complaint as a defendant. B. Procedure for Electronic Service • On the same day that a document is conventionally filed pursuant to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and applicable Florida laws, an exact copy of that document shall be sent to Verilaw for service by one of the following methods: (1) electronic transfer or downloading of the document via the Internet onto the Verilaw System; (2) fax transmission to Verilaw; or (3) hard copy via overnight mail to Verilaw. All documents electronically served via the Verilaw system shall be clearly titled as to identify the document and the party on whose behalf such document is being submitted. • Each time a registered user serves a document via the Verilaw System, the firm is charged 50¢ per firm on the service list for the asbestos case indicated, subject to a $12 minimum. The transaction fee will not vary based on the number of pages transmitted (subject to the exception of a lower fee for certain 1-2 page documents). There is no additional fee for exhibits and attachments submitted with a document. However, there is an additional 30¢ per page handling charge for faxed or mailed documents. It is the responsibility of the firm to insure that it maintains its debit account with Verilaw to effectuate service based on these charges. • Verilaw will convert all documents into Adobe Portable Document format and make them available to parties on the Verilaw System. Verilaw will post all documents on the Verilaw System according to the following timetable: a. Electronic documents will be posted on the Verilaw System within one (1) hour of receipt of such documents from a registered user; b. Faxed documents will be posted on the Verilaw System within six (6) business hours of receipt from a registered user; and 9 c. Mailed hard copy documents will be posted on the Verilaw System within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt of the overnight mail package.
Verilaw System - a web site specifically created by Verilaw Technologies, Inc. for 4 the electronic service, delivery, and storage of documents in asbestos cases litigated in Dade County, Florida. The web site will contain a Master Docket and individual dockets for each asbestos case. C. Effect of Electronic Service Electronic service shall be considered to substitute conventional service for registered users. D. Conventional Filing and Service
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 7f14f56cd2e0393e7af4cd26bed7c67e2daaef6a29f7542fe9ecc9dd9282ca73. Read from the order's ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs. 1 paragraph(s) withheld as too scan-damaged to quote.
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