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What Automated Certificates of Service Mean for Texas Lawyers – State Bar of Texas Podcast

October 8, 2021 | by D. Todd Smith

Butler Snow attorney [professional id=”15566″] was recently a guest on the State Bar of Texas Podcast.

E-filing systems are quicker and more efficient, but there is certainly still room for human error, as was seen in a recent case heard by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans— a lawyer who had agreed to use e-filing later missed a motion for summary judgment that landed in his spam folder, leading to his failure to respond to the motion in time and, ultimately, to the court tossing the lawsuit. What does all this have to do with Texas lawyers? Rocky Dhir welcomes D. Todd Smith to talk through the functions of automated certificates of service in the state and how this technology could prevent circumstances similar to those that led to the recent 5th Circuit case.

Listen to the podcast below or click here.