LexisNexis e-filing and e-service fees can be waived if your MVL client meets the financial eligibility requirements for waiver of court filing fees.

1.       Pro Bono attorneys now receive LexisNexis e-filing and e-service for free in indigent cases where the Court has approved the client's waiver of filing fees. (Click here to read the Chief Justice Directive  CJD 98-01.)

2.       Clients must request a waiver of filing fees and other court costs.  Use JDF 205 and JDF 203 (Motion to File without Payment of Filing Fee and Certification of Determination of Indigency) to request waiver of both the statutory fees and any Lexis-Nexis fees. 

3.    Metro Volunteer Lawyers will certify indigency for those who qualify.  Volunteer attorneys should file the signed Certification of Determination of Indigency from Metro Volunteer Lawyers with the Court with your initial filing. (We must review the client's JDF 205 in order to determine and certify indigency.  Have your client fill out JDF 205 completely, then send it to MVL for review and certification). 

4.   When each document is filed through e-filing, be sure to include a Note to the Clerk on the review and submit tab, indicating that statutory fees should be waived since this client has been approved for waiver of fees (if they have).

        If you file without pre-certification of indigency and the Court later makes a determination of indigency for purposes of waiving the client's filing fees, you may be able to contact LexisNexis customer service to request a refund of the LexisNexis file and serve fees.

5.       If the attorney has to search the case records, be sure to select "my transactions" or "transactions in my firm's cases" and NOT "all transactions".  You will still be charged for searches of cases which are not found at "my transactions" or at "transactions in my firm's cases".

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Click here to see the Colorado Supreme Court's official press release about this new arrangement with LexisNexis.