appellate-formatting
Appellate Document Formatting
Produces TOCs, TOAs, and Certificates of Compliance with accuracy guarantees and transparent placeholders where verification is required. The primary risk in AI-assisted appellate formatting is hallucinated page numbers and citations — use [__] placeholders aggressively rather than guessing.
Quick Start
Gather before drafting (unless user says "use defaults"):
- Brief text — final or near-final; label output "DRAFT" if still revising
- Forum/case metadata — court, circuit/state, case number, caption, brief type
- Formatting — font (proportional/monospaced), name/size, spacing, margins
- Filing method — CM/ECF, paper, or both; separate or combined certificate
- Court orders — any modified length limits
- Local rules — TOA format, hyperlinking, bookmarks, addendum
- Word count — final count from drafting platform plus believed exclusions
Defaults (if user doesn't specify): FRAP 32 federal circuit rules; proportional 14-pt font; [__] page placeholders; word count marked as estimate.
Stop and ask if forum, brief type, or formatting details are missing — certificate language, limits, and exclusions depend on these.
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