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Entries Tagged as 'Electronic Briefs'

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yesterday’s program on appellate issues for corporate counsel

June 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Yesterday afternoon, the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section hosted a seminar for in-house and counsel and appellate lawyers. There were six panels covering [...]

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The “back” button for Adobe e-briefs

June 14th, 2010 · No Comments

For all the work Adobe has done to make PDF documents hyperlinked, it has not included a basic navigational feature — the back button.

This weekend, [...]

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Today’s CLE presentation on electronic briefs [updated, with slide deck]

June 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

I’ll be speaking today with Blake Hawthorne at the UT State and Federal Appeals Conference about some recent changes in electronic briefing rules and what [...]

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