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Which Texas Supreme Court Justices were the most prolific last Term?

December 1st, 2011 · No Comments

This seems as good a day as any to talk about the Justices’ output last Term.

We know how many signed opinions each Justice wrote as [...]

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Tags: DocketDB · Practice Notes

My U.S. Supreme Court tracking project: CertPool.com

August 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment

An update about CertPool.com, my project for tracking the U.S. Supreme Court docket. You can see amicus filings, find out which cases are pending from your area, and get updates on specific cases by RSS.

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Tags: Legal Tech · US Supreme Court

Our CLE on making effective electronic briefs

June 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments

I will not be posting about the Friday orders list this week or next. You are on your own until June 22nd, when I [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · News and Links · Practice Notes

Redaction failures in PACER

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

So, how often do counsel botch an e-filing by leaving in redacted information?

Tim Lee has done a study of redaction failures using a nice-sized subset [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · News and Links

Some new DocketDB features you should know about

May 10th, 2011 · No Comments

I’ve been rolling out a steady stream of updates to the DocketDB site. I shared some of these at the recent Practicing Before the [...]

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Tags: DocketDB · Legal Tech · Practice Notes

Call for questions about how e-briefs in Texas appellate courts are really used

April 28th, 2011 · No Comments

If you’ve been following the blog, you know that Texas appellate courts are moving into the e-filing era.

For trial lawyers, this may seem [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · Legal Writing

Electronic filing of appellate briefs is now available in the Texas Supreme Court

March 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments

According to a notice posted on the Texas Supreme Court’s website, true electronic filing of appellate briefs is now available in that court:

Effective [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · Practice Notes

Voluntary e-filing hits a speed bump

March 8th, 2011 · No Comments

I got an email today from the Clerk of the Court noting that the voluntary e-filing the Court announced last week had hit a small [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · News and Links

SCOTX issues new e-brief and, yes, e-filing rules for all Texas appellate courts

March 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

The Texas Supreme Court issued two sets of orders today related to e-filing of appellate briefs in Texas.

Effective March 14, 2011: In the Texas [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · Practice Notes

What e-briefs are permitted in the intermediate Texas courts of appeals?

February 18th, 2011 · No Comments

Update: On March 1, 2011, the Texas Supreme Court issued some new rules designed to standardize these procedures.

In preparing for an upcoming CLE talk, I [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · Legal Writing

SCOTX extends its electronic-briefing order to motion practice

November 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Effective Monday, virtually all papers filed with the Texas Supreme Court must be accompanied by a PDF. (Only motions to extend time are excluded.)

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Tags: Electronic Briefs · Practice Notes

Study compares reading on e-readers, monitors, and paper

July 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Jakob Nielsen has released a study of how people experience reading on different devices — the iPad, the Kindle, a computer screen, and a paper [...]

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Tags: Electronic Briefs