THE APPELLATE INSIDER BLOG

At the Appellate Division, all electronically filed motions and papers filed in opposition or relation to motions should be filed in one PDF document that contains bookmarks linking each separate document contained therein.

When perfecting on the Appendix method, the Lower Court record must be subpoenaed from the county of original instance and sent to the Department in which the case is being heard. Please keep in mind each county has different charges in regard to subpoena fees.

The court should be notified of any scheduling conflicts that fall within a specific day of the term scheduled for oral argument. In the First Department, the notification must be made by the deadline specified in the court’s term calendar. The Second Department...

Sometimes filings contain errors on NYSCEF. If the clerk detects some defects in documents that have been e-filed, such as if papers for a different case are inadvertently attached the clerk may inform the filer and request that a corrected copy of those documents be...