Please make sure you read these revised rules:

http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/rules/12-001.pdf

I cannot. The font is too small.

And too many words.

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.

I tried that once. When I was the caretaker for the Overlook hotel.

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?

I've been putting the number of words because the rule says "stating the number of words in the document."

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

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.

We've been double siding our briefs for a while. It saves a lot of paper.

Does anyone else beside Tarrant County use both sides of the paper?

We double-side in El Paso. Makes it easier to bind as well.

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