Local Rule LR 5005-1: Electronic Filing
Bankr. E.D. Wis. — General rule
LR 5005-1 Electronic Filing
(a) Parties represented by counsel must file electronically.
(1) Parties represented by counsel must file electronically through the court's CM/ECF system unless the court for cause permits filing through other means. Counsel using the CM/ECF system to file documents must comply with the Case Management/Electronic Case Filing Administrative Procedures or procedures applicable to any successor electronic filing and case-management system.
(2) Counsel must file all documents created by the filer electronically in text-searchable, Portable Document Format ("PDF"), and must file in text-searchable PDF format all other documents available in that format.
(3) Counsel may not file petitions, motions, briefs, memoranda, objections, responses, correspondence, pleadings, declarations, stipulations, or proposed orders that are scanned (non-text-searchable PDFs).
(b) Electronic filing by persons not represented by counsel. Persons not represented by counsel must file documents and other papers (other than proofs of claim) in hard copy, unless the court authorizes electronic filing and the filing complies with all court-mandated procedures.
(c) Creditor filing proof of claim. A creditor may file a proof of claim electronically in the manner described on the court's website: https://www.wieb.uscourts.gov/file-claim-electronically.