Balmar Legal Brief Procedures
Supreme Court Brief Preparation
- Balmar Legal will format your brief to ensure compliance with the court’s formatting requirements. (Preparation services require additional time –please contact us to discuss a schedule).
- After formatting, we send a PDF proof to you for your approval/edits prior to printing. Hard copy proofs are also available on request.
- You may submit electronic files of your written briefs, and Balmar Legal will adjust the margins, fonts, and spacing to make your document compliant with the court’s guidelines. You may also supply hard copy documents that need to be typeset or scanned and then formatted for compliance.
Printing and Binding Services
- You may submit files to us that are already formatted to the court’s specifications and we will print/bind your brief (standard turn time is 24 hours, however we can accommodate rush/same day schedules if necessary – please contact us to discuss).
- Briefs submitted which are already formatted do not require a proof stage (should you require a proof, please note that it will require additional time and costs). Submit your files (as fully formatted print-ready PDFs) via email to Lisa Farnsworth at lfarnsworth@balmar.com by 5PM EST for delivery/filing the following business day
- We inventory the paper stocks accepted by the courts and always have paper on hand to start your printing immediately.
Delivery
- If you choose for us to file your brief, we will hand deliver it to the court and obtain a filing timestamp for your records. Clients prefer this option to filing by mail with a postmark date from out-of-state, as the timestamp at the court is your proof of a brief filed with the court on time.
- We will mail any service copies to parties that need to be served and send any additional copies back to your office with the timestamp from the court.
