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There are tons of great reasons to purchase a Looking Glass Supreme Court or Circuit Court legal brief template: they come completely formatted, include detailed guidance notes in most cases, and are competitively priced. Need another reason? We've partnered with Looking Glass to assist you in the event that you require printing/typesetting/formatting services. Cockle will [...]
So, you have an upcoming Supreme Court brief to file, and can't quite figure out the Court's odd margin requirements on your computer. You've tried adjusting your Microsoft Word .doc margins, but something isn't adding up. You know your template’s margins should measure 4 1/8- by 7 1/8-inches or smaller, but Microsoft Word doesn't exactly [...]
My wife didn’t think it would happen like this. For many, this was the loss of a hero, an icon, and a champion. She's been sewing face coverings as a side project for her friends and family, mostly because she wanted an RBG mask so badly and couldn't find one anywhere online. She's an attorney [...]
The Looking Glass blog has posted some great entries aimed at pro se filers this summer. If you're petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court and cost is a factor in your decision making process, you'll want to read a few of their recent posts: How to Write a Winning Pro Se Petition In Forma Pauperis--How to [...]
Cockle Legal Briefs is on the verge of launching Looking Glass™, a new application which will transform legal brief filing. With its collection of powerful formatting tools and guidance features, Looking Glass will provide Supreme Court filers with a seamless drafting experience. Over the next few weeks we'll slowly let folks into our Beta to try [...]
“I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.” – Bill James, baseball historian There may be no more daunting task in all Supreme Court practice than distilling a 9,000-word cert. petition down to one or two questions presented. This level of difficulty should come as no surprise—only the [...]
OMAHA, NE This blog post was removed/edited on July 19th, 2021, in light of the Supreme Court's order on said date. The Court has rescinded its previous orders of March 19, 2020 and April 15, 2020, which had previously allowed filers to prepare unformatted, single copies of Supreme Court filings. Starting September 1, 2021, Rule [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, courts around the world began closing their doors, only to open new modes of communication online and over the telephone. Technology became an operational lifeline. The virus has unearthed the potential of underutilized tools long resisted by judges and court administrative staff. "Remote court" -- from telephonic hearings to video [...]
Though the Supreme Court cancelled its March argument session and extended deadlines for many cases, paper copy filing continues unencumbered here at Cockle. As Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law reported yesterday, "It seems unlikely that the pandemic will spur a shift [at One First Street]. 'Paper filings are still required,' said Patricia McCabe, [...]
Over 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the United States. This makes our prisons a virtual petri dish for the spread of viral illness. In an effort to slow the onset of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. prison system, many prisons have been forced to quickly change their daily operations. Prisons in Arizona and [...]