Florida courts saw a record number of new non-criminal case filings in December and a record number of average daily filings in January as court activity continued to recover from last spring’s pandemic slump.

According to information from the Florida Courts E-Filing Authority, new cases filed in December though the statewide e-filing Portal hit 99,499, eclipsing the previous record of 98,402 in January 2019.

New cases averaged almost 90,000 a month for the first three months of 2020 before dropping below 70,000 a month for April and May as in-person court proceedings largely stopped and lawyers switched from working in offices to working from home because of COVID-19. The filing numbers have been slowly climbing since.