CM/ECF Attorneys' Manual - Southern District of Ohio

Miscellaneous
ECF provides three Miscellaneous functions within the Utilities feature of the system.
• Legal Research
• Mailings
• Verify a Document
When you click on the Legal Research hyperlink from the Miscellaneous screen, ECF opens a new
screen that contains hyperlinks to a Law Dictionary, a Medical Dictionary, and Westlaw via the
Internet. Select the Verify a Document hyperlink to open a query screen and enter data in the screen
fields to locate a particular document attached to a specific case number. There is also a Mailings
hyperlink that opens a new screen for making or requesting mailings from ECF.
Logout
After you have completed all of your transactions for a particular session in ECF, you should exit from the system.
Click on the Logout hyperlink from the ECF Blue menu bar. ECF will log you out of the system and return you to
the ECF login screen as depicted in Figure 4 of this manual.
Additional Information Regarding ECF
Sealed Documents
Sealed documents must be brought to the District Court Clerk’s office for filing.
CM/ECF Attorney’s Manual (Rev. July 2005) Page 48 Ohio Southern District Court