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I'm a litigator who continues to be amazed by the page formatting requirements in courts around the country. Especially at the appellate level, it can take hour
by dbot 13y ago
I'm a litigator who continues to be amazed by the page formatting requirements in courts around the country. Especially at the appellate level, it can take hours to find and then implement all of the requirements. Worse, all documents are then converted to PDF, making them even less useful.
What's crazy is that most briefs are actually just a series of links: cite to Case A, B; cite to document C; cite to statute C...Sometimes attorneys will make "e-briefs" to actually link PDFs, but those usually cost thousands of dollars to manually generate.
I'm working on an open-source court filing project that would let attorneys and the court write and post everything in an electronic format for easy linking and search. Think of it as a free, universal ECF/PACER for state courts. If anyone is interested in helping, feel free to drop me a line.