How to File a Corporate Disclosure Statement
Last Review Date: January 4, 2022 Page 1 of 2
Filling Preparation:
Before you begin to file, be sure to review the following rules:
➢ Local Civil Rule 7.1 - CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
➢ Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 7.1 – Disclosure Statement
Important Notes:
➢ The Corporate Disclosure Statement must be filed separately using the Corporate Disclosure
Statement event.
➢ To prevent avoidable case delays and judge conflicts, all entities and individuals listed in the
disclosure must be entered into CM/ECF when filing a Corporate Disclosure Statement.
➢ If a Corporate Disclosure Statement is not filed, the Court dockets a Notice to Filer and will
impose a filing deadline.
Filing instructions:
1. Go to Civil or Criminal > Other Documents.
2. Enter your Case Number.
3. Select the Corporate
Disclosure Statement under
Available Events, then select
Next.
4. Upload the Corporate Disclosure Statement under Main Document, then select Next.
5. Select the filer (the party you
represent), then select Next.
6. Indicate whether any Corporate Parents/Affiliates need to be added to the case.
Note: If you have parents, grandparents, affiliates, owners, or members (companies or
individuals) listed in your disclosure statement, then you need to select YES and enter them all
a. If you answer NO, you are
taken to the final docket
text screen:
b. If you answer YES, proceed to Step 7.
7. Search for a Corporate Parent/Affiliate by entering
the Last/Business name and then select Search.
How to File a Corporate Disclosure Statement
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8. If the Corporate Parent/Affiliate already exists in the system, select it from the Search Results
and then select Select name from list; otherwise, select Create new corporate parent or other
affiliate.
9. Edit the name (if necessary)
and select a Type from the
dropdown menu. Then select
other affiliate.
10. Select the party to which the
Corporate Parent/Affiliate
applies and select Next.
11. You are taken back to the Search page and the Corporate Parent/Affiliate you just added
appears.
12. Repeat Steps 7 – 11 until you finish adding all
Corporate Parents/Affiliates, then select End
corporate parent or other affiliate selection.
13. The final docket text includes the Corporate Parent(s)/Affiliate(s) added to the case.
Note: If you indicate that there are Corporate Parents/Affiliates (Step 6), but do not add them to
your case (Steps 7 – 11), you receive the following error instructing you to add all the corporate
parents/affiliates:
