Appellate tip of the day

When most lawyers prepare an application to a court of appeal for a supervisory writ, the last thing they do before having it photocopied is assemble the documents to be included in the appendix. But you can make the job easier by assembling and page-number your appendix first, before you write the writ application. Number the pages in the appendix consecutively, A1 through A-whatever. If you do this, you can give the court a pinpoint cite to a specific page in your appendix whenever you refer to any document there.

Posted by RPW at May 12, 2005 10:55 AM