Ok, I stole this from Blake Hawthorne, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Texas. Find him @blakeahawthorne on Twitter. In this Tweet he talks about the electronic brief guide authored by him.
You are in luck, because the guide to electronic briefs can be found right here: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1443805/guide-to-creating-electronic-appellate-briefs-2019-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc.pdf
And HE was prompted by this:
Since I probably have your attention now, let me mention that this is a good idea for trial court briefs and memos as well. Let’s face it, we are in the digital age. We might not have been on March 1, 2020 but we darn sure are now, courtesy of Covid-19. Trial court judges are increasingly having their courts go substantially to almost totally digital.
Therefore, make their work easier. And if that doesn’t interest you, then do it as a purely selfish act of having the judge actually read your submission. All of it. In your legal research tool whether Westlaw, Lexis, CaseMaker, FastCase or something else, do you use the hyperlinks to jump from headnote to text or to a case cite to the case? Of course you do. Give them the gift of an electronic brief.
The guide is excellent. It will tell you everything single resource you need and exactly how to do it. Oh, and by the way, in your pre-mediation submissions — if they are substantial — I would not mind those being created thusly as well !
