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Please make sure you read these revised rules:

http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/rules/12-001.pdf
 
Posts: 444 | Location: Austin, Texas, USA | Registered: January 06, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I cannot. The font is too small.
 
Posts: 1243 | Location: houston, texas, u.s.a. | Registered: October 19, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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And too many words.
 
Posts: 7860 | Location: Georgetown, Texas | Registered: January 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Because they have eliminated page limits, I have decided to try writing a brief with only one word per page--I like white space. Maybe I can make it work like those flip-book movies I used to make in my class notebooks during elementary school.
 
Posts: 2137 | Location: McKinney, Texas, USA | Registered: February 15, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I tried that once. When I was the caretaker for the Overlook hotel.
 
Posts: 1243 | Location: houston, texas, u.s.a. | Registered: October 19, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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How is everyone doing their certificate of compliance. Do we need to put the word count on it or just that is complies with the rules?
 
Posts: 419 | Location: Abilene, TX USA | Registered: December 16, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I've been putting the number of words because the rule says "stating the number of words in the document."
 
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I quess I should have reread the rule better before I posted. I probably read it that way on the first brief because I did put the word count, but just forgot what it said
 
Posts: 419 | Location: Abilene, TX USA | Registered: December 16, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The increased typeface changes the number of lines of print per page (by 2, down to 20). The number of words per line may drop by an average of 15-18% in Times New Roman (depending, of course, on the average length of your words). So what was a 10 page brief becomes 11 1/2 pages, 20 pages becomes closer to 23, and so forth.

Warning to all trees growing in the judicial forest: The new rule may mean 15 fewer of each 100 of you do not survive to maturity. Call your attorney liasons to urge more concise briefing. Good luck with that.
 
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We've been double siding our briefs for a while. It saves a lot of paper.
 
Posts: 527 | Location: Fort Worth, Texas, | Registered: May 23, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Does anyone else beside Tarrant County use both sides of the paper?
 
Posts: 444 | Location: Austin, Texas, USA | Registered: January 06, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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We double-side in El Paso. Makes it easier to bind as well.


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Double siding. I like it. We've been efiling, but our COA wants paper copies. Hmmmm.
 
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