One free look is available to each attorney of record. The one free look is associated with the attorneys CM/ECF login and password. If an attorney has a secondary e-mail notification associated with his/her user account, he/she is only entitled to one free look, regardless of who looks at it first. (Attorneys may list additional e-mail addresses so that members of his/her support staff can be notified of a filing.)

The hyperlink to access the document will expire after the first look or 15 days, whichever occurs first. The free-look applies to the main document. Do not double-click the link on the NEF, this will ‘kill’ your ‘free look’.

• If the document is in a Criminal, Magistrate or Social Security case, or any document with security, when you click on the link for the document for the first time, you will be prompted to login to the ECF/Pacer account. LOGIN USING YOUR ECF ACCOUNT LOGIN AND PASSWORD. This should take you straight to the document – this is your free look. If you use your PACER account login and password, you will lose your free look, and will have to take up any billing disputes with the PACER company.
• If the document is for a non-Social Security civil case, when you click on the document link for the first time, it should take you straight to the document without asking for a login. This is your free look.
• If you click on the case number link (vs the document link) that takes you to the docket you will receive a login prompt. You should login with your pacer account login and password. You do not get a free look at a docket sheet. YOU WILL BE CHARGED.
• If you login to ECF or PACER without using the e-mail link, YOU WILL BE CHARGED.