Access and change your settings anytime
NOTE: If you are part of a larger law firm that has Admins handle your passwords for you, check with them first. They can tell you your password or reset it for you. Otherwise, you can reset your password yourself if you forgot it.
To reset your password, navigate from the left navigation “Account Settings” and right navigation “Profile & Security”. Click on the “Change Password” link as shown below:
If you can't login and need a new password, just go to the login page and click on the "Forgot password?" link as shown below:
Then enter your email in the box that appears and click the "Send verification code" button. You will get emailed a code to enter and then reset your password.
If you do not receive the email in less than 5 minutes, please check your spam folder or ask your firm's network administrator.
To set your search preferences, navigate from the left navigation “Account Settings” and right navigation “Search & Download":
Whenever you search for cases, you can limit your results to the following types of cases:
You can also select specific courts to always limit your search to those jurisdictions. However, this is not recommended if on occasion you will search for cases nationwide.
You can also set your immediate PDF import options when downloading from PACER. This will allow you to choose:
Docket
To set your docket and claims register, bankruptcy only, views, navigate from the left navigation “Settings” and right navigation “Dockets & Claims”.
When viewing the docket sheet, you have a number of customization options as detailed below.
You can set your sort order by selecting either:
You can choose to always show or hide your docket header.
Whenever you click the "Update" button from the docket, you can:
If the docket has a gap due to missing entries, you can:
Claims Register (bankruptcy only)
You can set the sort order when viewing a claim register:
You can set your layout preference:
You can show or hide statistical information.
If you have a CM/ECF filing account (typically owned by attorneys, creditors, and other claim filers), or if you are staff in charge of handling ECF notices for an ECF Filer, you may use an email on our system for the purpose of adding it to your CM/ECF account as an extra notice recipient.
Click “Account Settings” on the left navigation and then “ECF Notices” in the right navigation.
Then, click the Setup ECF Notices button shown below (NOTE: The Administrator for your firm may have assigned you a CourtDrive email before you get to the following screen. If so, you will not have a button to click and may skip to the next step.):
You will be assigned a CourtDrive email to add to CM/ECF. If you want to change it, click the edit button as shown below:
Once satisfied with your CourtDrive email (@ecf.courtdrive.com), you must add that email to your Court's CM/ECF system.
ECF-Share allows you to receive and/or automatically distribute a mobile optimized copy of your ECF notices with a permanently free PDF for anyone on your distribution list.
PLEASE NOTE: Our ECF-Share feature only works with "per-event" notices. If you receive the daily summary version from the court, please switch to "per-event" notification to use this feature.
Thereafter, decide who in your firm should receive the notices by setting up an internal distribution list.
Later we will show you how to setup a distribution list "per case" so you can add external parties (such as clients or opposing counsel) to a specific case. Do not external parties to your account settings here because any email you add here will receive copies of everything on all your cases.
CourtDrive also has different PDF handling options if there are multiple parts like exhibits per ECF email:
You can also select how you would like delivery of the PDFs.
We recommend mobile optimized one-click button (most common - saves megabytes of space in your email server and never gets blocked due to excessive file size). You can also select to attach PDFs.
If your firm uses client-matter codes, you can select among the following auto-fill options: