ELIGIBILITY, REGISTRATION, PASSWORDS

4.1. Eligibility; Registration Required . (a) Attorneys. Unless exempted by the court, each attorney representing a party to a case maintained in JIMS shall register as a JEFS User. An attorney is eligible for registration if the attorney is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of Hawai‘i, is on active status, and is not suspended, disbarred, or otherwise prohibited from practicing law in the State of Hawai‘i. An attorney admitted pro hac vice may not register as a JEFS User because all filings must be made by the local counsel with whom the pro hac vice attorney is associated. (b) Assistant or Staff Member . An assistant or staff member employed by an attorney JEFS User, or employed by the law firm or the organization of the attorney JEFS user, may register as a JEFS user in his or her own name to electronically file documents on behalf of the employer. The employer shall be responsible for the actions and documents electronically filed by the assistant or staff member. (c) Self-represented parties . A self-represented party may register as a JEFS User for the case(s) in which he or she is a party. (d) Approved government agency partners . An employee of an approved government agency partner, who is not a party, but who prepares documents for filing in a court case, may register as a JEFS User for the sole purpose of filing through JEFS court documents necessary for a particular case. (Amended January 21, 2015, effective July 1, 2015; further amended April 10, 2019, effective April 10, 2019.) 4.2. Registration . An individual eligible for registration as a JEFS User shall register by way of the internet at the Judiciary’s website. Required registration information shall include, at minimum, the registrant’s name, one or more email addresses for service of process, a physical address, and one or more telephone numbers. Where the registrant is an attorney, the registration shall include the attorney’s bar admission number and acknowledgments that (a) the registrant consents to electronic notice in lieu of physical service of documents and (b) use of the JEFS login and password is sufficient to validate the registrant’s electronic signature. 4.3. Login and Password . Upon successful registration, an authorized Judiciary representative shall issue a JEFS login and password to the registrant. The JEFS login and password shall be used exclusively by the JEFS User or, if the JEFS User is an attorney, by the JEFS User’s assistant or staff member. A JEFS User shall not knowingly permit a login or password to be used by anyone other than the JEFS User and, if the JEFS User is an attorney, the JEFS User’s assistant or staff member. Each JEFS User shall safeguard his or her login and password and shall immediately notify the clerk of the court upon discovery or suspicion that the login and/or password security has been breached. 4.4. Suspension or Deactivation of JEFS Access . A court or the Administrative Director may, at any time, with or without notice, cause a JEFS User’s access to JEFS to be suspended or deactivated. The JEFS User shall be given an opportunity to contest the suspension or deactivation. The court or the Administrative Director may require successful completion of training to reactivate an individual’s JEFS participation.