In drafting appeals, the appellate attorney will request, receive, and review a typed transcript of and exhibits admitted at the hearing of which the Order is being appealed. This allows the appellate attorney, who may or may not have been the trial attorney, to review the record, gather information, and quote the hearing transcript as argument in the appellate briefs.
Transcripts for appeal are often lengthy if the hearing was conducted over the period of a full day or more. This can mean several hundred pages and hours of document review to gather appropriate information and familiarize the attorney with the ... Read More
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A recent blog discussed how an appellant (person initiating an appeal) gathers documents from the lower court hearing being appealed in an appendix to provide the Court of Appeals with the relevant information litigated to give a background into the matter. Additionally, the appellant will order a transcript of the lower court hearings for review by the parties and the Court of Appeals.
A transcript is a verbatim written recording of the events of the trial court. If a hearing went on for multiple days with multiple witnesses, all of that testimony will be delineated exactly in the transcript. If a ... Read More