Attorney/Trustee Registration Process

• If the attorney is already ECF registered in another bankruptcy court, the attorney will need to perform the following steps:
  1. Complete entire ECF Registration Form.
     *Not required to complete a training course or Connectivity Exercise.
  2. Provide supporting documentation as proof of your registration with another Bankruptcy Court. (i.e. notice of electronic filing, welcome/log in screen, e-mail from court assigning login and password, ECF Training Completion Certificate, etc.). The bankruptcy.s court name must be displayed somewhere on the documentation.
  3. Return the registration form along with the supporting documentation to the following address:

     United States Bankruptcy Court
     Northern District of Texas
     Attn: ECF Registration
     1100 Commerce St., Rm. 1254
     Dallas, TX 75242

  The Clerk's Office will not accept any ECF registrations by fax or email.
• If the attorney is not registered with another bankruptcy court, the attorney will need to perform the following steps:
  1. If you are not already registered with another Bankruptcy Court you must attend an attorney training classroom session. Click on the following appropriate attorney class link and register for one of the available training classes.

     Debtor Attorney Class
     Creditor Attorney Class

     Attorneys will receive 3.75 hours of CLE credit for attending. If you need to cancel your reservation for classroom training, please send an email to ecftraining@txnb.uscourts.gov notifying the court you will be unable to attend. Please include the name(s) of the all participants not attending, and the class date. Please allow two (2) days notice when cancelling a reservation.
  2. After you have attended the class, you will fill out the ECF Registration Packet (Registration Form with course certificate and Connectivity Exercise) and mail or deliver it to the following address:

     United States Bankruptcy Court
     Northern District of Texas
     Attn: ECF Registration
     1100 Commerce St., Rm. 1254
     Dallas, TX 75242

  The Clerk's Office will not accept any ECF registrations by fax or email.

  Once the court receives the registration form (with the course certificate) and the connectivity exercise, we will review it to ensure all of the requested information has been provided. If the registration form complies with all of the requested information then an ECF live login and password will be issued and emailed to the address provided on the registration form.

  Please allow two business days (from receipt) for the court to process a completed registration form.

  If you submit an incomplete ECF Registration form, the form will be returned to you requesting the required information and you will have to resubmit the registration form with supporting documentation.