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Relocation of CM/ECF Email Delivery Servers

By | August 15, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | No comments

To All ECF Users:

The Court was recently notified that in August, the Administrative Office of the U. S. Courts moved the location of its CM/ECF email delivery servers to provide for better backup and recovery.  As a result of the migration, several new Mail server Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were assigned to the CM/ECF email delivery application.

Because the migration involved a network location move, we have been monitoring the bounce-back of NEF deliveries to ensure that the Internet Service Providers for our registered CM/ECF users are not blocking NEF deliveries from these new IP addresses.

We are unsure of the impact of this change but believe the majority of court users will be unaffected.  However, if you believe that you are not receiving NEFs, you should contact the ECF Help Support Desk immediately at (213) 894-2365.  Because the migration involved a network location move, if you are not receiving notices, you may need to contact your Internet Service Provider to have the new uscourts.gov Mail server IP addresses shown below whitelisted.

— 63.241.40.200
— 63.241.40.202
— 63.241.40.204
— 63.241.40.205
— 199.107.16.200
— 199.107.16.202
— 199.107.16.204
— 199.107.16.205
— 206.18.112.200
— 206.18.112.202
— 206.18.112.204
— 206.18.112.205

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.  Please call the help desk at (213) 894-2365 if you have any questions.

Request for Volunteers from the Bar

By | August 8, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | No comments

ATTENTION MEMBERS OF THE BAR:

The Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California is seeking members of the Bar who represent debtors to assist with the testing of a pilot program called Debtor Electronic Bankruptcy Noticing or DBEN. DEBN will allow debtors to elect to receive entered orders and court-generated notices by email instead of their street address. Debtors will only receive the orders and court generated notices by email that they otherwise would have received by U.S. Mail. The pilot program is a collaboration with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) and the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC). Testing is expected to begin in Fall, 2013, and last approximately 60 days. The deadline to volunteer is Thursday, August 16, 2013. Please see attached document for more information.

Regards,

ECF Help Desk
(213) 894-2365

Pay.gov Software Upgrade to v5.6

By | June 27, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | 1 Comment

Attention:

Pay.gov, the CM/ECF on-line credit card processing module, will be deploying an upgrade of its software (v5.6) on Saturday, June 29, 2013 between 3:00 PM and 11:00 PM (Pacific Time).  During this maintenance period ECF users may experience interruptions of service affecting processing of fee transactions.

Access to CM/ECF is NOT affected by this outage.

Regards,

ECF Help Desk
(213) 894-2365

New Transcript Ordering Process

By | June 24, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | No comments

Effective July 1, 2013, the Court is adopting a new transcript ordering process.  For more information see: go.usa.gov/bvQk

-ECF

LBR Word Order Forms Updated

By | June 21, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | 1 Comment

The Court has posted updated MS-Word versions of its Notice of Entered Order and Service List (LBR form F 9021-1.1.NOTICE,ENTERED.ORDER) as well as the Notice of Entered Order and Service List attached to all MS-Word LBR form orders.

The updated forms fix a font issue related to the quotation marks.  Please use these updated MS-Word form versions for future filings rather than files you may have previously downloaded.  The revision date on these form orders has not been changed.

-ECF Support

cdcbaa — The Strategic Plan for the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California

By | June 17, 2013 | Court Clerk Information, Judges Corner, Programs | 1 Comment

cdcbaa — Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Association: The Strategic Plan for the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California

June 22, 2013

Speakers:
Judges Peter Carroll, Maureen Tighe, Scott Clarkson, Deborah Saltzman, Sandra Klein
Clerk of the Court Kathy Campbell and Staff

The judges will present the proposed new Strategic Plan for the Central District of California, and discuss, among other things, (a) the prior strategic plans of the court; (b) the process undertaken to develop the proposed plan; (c) the comments received during the comment period that expired on May 15, 2013; (d) current work on the proposed plan, including the layout of the plan and the incorporation of comments received; (e) the projected adoption date and implementation date; and (f) the reports that will be made by the chief judge annually during the 7 year term of the plan after implementation regarding the goals reached under each of the strategic issues contained in the plan. Ms. Campbell and her staff may have a Power Point presentation on one or more aspects of the plan. The presentation will be 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes, with the balance of the time for questions, etc. Each judge making a presentation is responsible for a specific aspect of the planning process and will speak about that section.

Where:
Southwestern Law School
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
Westmoreland Building – 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Parking is $8.00

Times:
Registration: 10:00am – 11:00am
cdcbaa Membership Meeting: 10:30 am – 11:00 am
Program: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

2 Hours of MCLE Credit Provided – Limited Space

NOTE: ONLY MEMBERS CURRENT ON THEIR 2013 MEMBERSHIP DUES WILL BE ADMITTED.

Cost: Free to current cdcbaa Members
Non-Members: $250 (which includes cdcbaa membership through 2013, at least two more free MCLE Programs this year, admission to the list serve, and admission to the annual
Calvin Ashland Awards Dinner). Note: persons who have not previously been members of the cdcbaa may join at the meeting for $175.00 which will cover the remainder of this year and the Awards Dinner.

Sign up the day of the seminar with a check payable to cdcbaa or visit our website at www.bklawyers.org to remit payment online.

July 20th CLE Program:
New Issues with the Homestead Exemption

Employment Opportunities with the United States District Court, Central District of California

By | June 11, 2013 | Courts | 1 Comment

Employment Opportunities with the United States District Court, Central District of California.

Opportunity:  Seeking a term law clerk position to a new U.S. Magistrate Judge in Los Angeles, California
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/employment/term-law-clerk-us-magistrate-judge-designee

Opportunity:  Seeking a term law clerk position to a new U.S. Magistrate Judge in Santa Ana, California
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/employment/term-law-clerk-us-magistrate-judge-designee-0

Power Outage – Roybal Federal Building � Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM

By | May 16, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | No comments

ATTENTION ALL ECF USERS:

GSA will be shutting off the electrical power to Roybal building in Los Angeles from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM on Saturday, May 18, 2013.  The following electronic systems will not be available as a result of this outage:

CM/ECF Live and Training
LOU
VCIS
LA Archive

The following system will be available:
PACER

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Best regards,
ECF Help Desk
(213) 894-2365

Employment Opportunities with the United States District Court

By | May 7, 2013 | Court Clerk Information | 1 Comment

Employment Opportunities with the United States District Court, Central District of California.  Please select the link(s) to positions that interest you.
Opportunity: Seeking to Fill a Full-time U.S. Magistrate Judge Position in
Riverside, California
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/employment/us-magistrate-judge

Opportunity: Seeking to Fill a Part-time U.S. Magistrate Judge Position in
Santa Barbara, California
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/employment/part-time-us-magistrate-judge

Opportunity: Career Law Clerk to a U.S. Magistrate Judge
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/employment/career-law-clerk-us-magistrate-judge

Chapter 7 Educational Video

By | May 6, 2013 | Court Clerk Information, Current Events, Pro Bono | 1 Comment

Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce that the first Chapter 7 educational video is now available on our website. It is about 40 minutes long and is a video-taped overview of the presentation we provide clients at our monthly Chapter 7 pro se clinics. As we mentioned at the last DAP meeting, the success rate for individuals attending the Chapter 7 pro se clinic and then filing for bankruptcy in 2012 was an impressive 95% and far exceeded the success rate by unrepresented debtors generally of 55.1% that same year. We hope this video will provide bankruptcy pro bono programs and Courts in other divisions within the Central District and state-wide with another educational tool for their clients.

The link to the Chapter 7 Overview video presentation: http://www.publiccounsel.org/video?id=0076

The link is available on the Public Counsel website under the News Section/videos and is titled “Overview of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and Alternatives to Bankruptcy.”

This project took several months to coordinate with dedicated staff from the United States Bankruptcy Court and wouldn’t have been possible without their assistance. We would like to thank the Bankruptcy Court staff for donating their time, expertise and creativity in making this video such as successful collaboration. We would also like to specially recognize the following individuals from the United States Bankruptcy Court staff: 1) Sandi Brask; 2) Robin Beacham 3) Ed Pabros; 4) Nick Tam; 5) Jennifer Paro and 6) Monica Groves. Without their assistance this would not have been possible. Thank you!

Please feel free to forward a link to this video to clients, organizations or any programs who could benefit from having this information. Your assistance in disseminating this video is greatly appreciated. The second video which includes an actual review of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition—page by page– is still being edited. We will make this link available as soon as it is finalized.

The 2nd video is 3 ½ hours long and provides a detailed overview about the Chapter 7 filing process.

Thank you!

Warmest regards,

Maggie

Magdalena Reyes Bordeaux
Supervising Attorney
Public Counsel
Consumer Law Project &
Debtor Assistance Project
Ph: 213.385.2977 ext. 105
Fx: 213.385.9089
Em: mbordeaux@publiccounsel.org

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