Local Rule Rule 2.11: Signatures on Electronic Filings
E.D. Mo. — General rule
Rule 2.11 (FRCP 11) Signatures on Electronic Filings.
An authorized filing made through a person's electronic filing account, together with the person's name on a signature block, constitutes the person's signature for all purposes, including Fed.R.Civ.P. 11.
The electronic filing of preexisting documents, not created for the litigation, requires no verification as to signatures. When a document to be electronically filed has been created for the litigation, but is signed by other than an attorney of record, the document must be physically signed.
(New rule added May 15, 2003, effective October 1, 2003; Amended July 10, 2006, effective August 28, 2006; Amended October 11, 2018, effective December 1, 2018; Amended October 2, 2019, effective November 1, 2019)