Lebanon Cnty. C.P. Civil Division Rules 3

(a) Electronic filers must register with CountySuite in

accordance with the CountySuite User Manual.

(b) All registered users must be individuals and not

entities, including but not limited to law firms,

agencies, corporations, or government entities.

(c) Registered users shall change their address or other

contact information with CountySuite within ten (10)

days of any change.

(B) Form of Documents Electronically Filed.

(1) Format. Legal papers shall be presented for filing in a

Portable Document Format (PDF).

(2) Title of Documents. The title of each electronically filed

document shall include:

(a) Descriptive title of the document;

(b) [Identity of the] Party or parties filing the document;

(c) [Identity of the] Party or parties against whom relief,

if any, is sought; and

(d) Nature of the relief sought (e.g., Motion for Summary

Judgment of Defendant ABC Corp. against Plaintiff

Miller).

(3) Signature and Verification.

(a) The electronic filing of legal papers utilizing the

username and password [assigned by CountySuite]

constitutes the party’s signature. The legal paper

must include a signature block and the name of the

filer under whose username and password the legal

paper is submitted. The legal paper may be

submitted with the filer’s scanned signature or /s/ and

the filer’s name typed in the space where the

signature would otherwise appear on the legal paper.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Attorney

Identification Number must be included under the

signature line. The correct format of the attorney

signature is:

/s/ Attorney Name

PA Supreme Court ID #

Attorney for [Party]

Law Firm

Address

Telephone Number

E-Mail Address

Fax Number

(b) The verification required by Pa.R.Civ.P. 206.3 and

Pa.R.Civ.P. 1024 and the signature page(s) of any

document or legal paper executed by any party other

than the filing party must be included in the electronic

filing in PDF format at the time the legal pap er is

submitted.

(C) Public Access to Docket.

(1) Public access to the Prothonotary’s docket and

CountySuite are available on the internet at the

Prothonotary’s website.

(2) The Prothonotary shall also make a public access terminal

available to the general public to allow access to the

Court’s electronic case record in all electronically filed

cases in the Prothonotary’s office. The public access

terminals will provide the sa me level of access to cases

that is provided to the public excluding any cases sealed

by court order, statute or rule of court.

(D) Fees.

(1) The Prothonotary will accept credit cards for payment of all

e-filing fees. The Prothonotary will not accept advance

deposits for payment of future filing fees. Electronic filers

shall alert the Prothonotary’s office of any payment errors

as soon as possible and not later than forty-five (45) days

after the payment date.

(2) The Prothonotary is authorized to charge a convenience

fee for credit card payments. The convenience fee will be

as stated in the current Prothonotary fee schedule.

(E) Filings Under Seal.

(1) Documents intended to be filed under seal shall be

designated as “sealed” in CountySuite. However,

designation of documents as “sealed” does not seal the

documents. In addition to making the designation in

CountySuite, the filing party must also submit a proper

Motion for sealing documents to the Court.

(2) Confidential Information Forms and documents properly

filed with a Confidential Document Form pursuant to Case

Records Policy of the United Judicial System of

Pennsylvania will be sealed without motion.

(3) The filing details and document title will appear in

CountySuite. The sealed documents and Confidential

Information Forms can be viewed only by the Court, Court

staff, Court Administration, Prothonotary staff, and case

participants.

(F) Filing.

(1) The Prothonotary shall provide access to CountySuite at all

times except during periods of required maintenance.

(2) The date and time of filing of a legal paper shall be

recorded by CountySuite. CountySuite shall provide the

filing party with an electronic mail acknowledgment which

includes the date and time the legal paper was received by

CountySuite.

(3) Once filed, the legal paper shall be reviewed by the

Prothonotary, and the filing party will receive notification

that the legal paper was either accepted or rejected. Legal

documents will only be reviewed by the Prothonotary staff

during normal business hours. The date of filing shall be

the date the document was received by CountySuite, not

the date of acceptance.