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Why the Table of Contents is the Most Important Part of your Brief
If you view a brief as the map to a case, the table of contents (TOC) is the navigation point that directs readers to the information they need to reach your ultimate destination. This article details the factors that will help make your TOC more effective.
How Do Bookmarks in Digital Legal Briefs Help the Court?
Bookmarks provide an automated link between citations in a legal brief and key materials of record for a case. Learn why many states, including California, now require bookmarks in briefs and other electronic documents, to help the court navigate complex cases more easily.
Making Better Digital Legal Briefs with Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are a small, but mighty feature of digital briefs. They can either be internal (link to a different section of the same brief PDF), or external (link to a case authority, on a website like CaseText/Westlaw/LexisNexis, or to the record). All relevant documents one click away Using...
The Case for Digital Legal Briefs
The legal world has been evolving towards digitization for almost 40 years, starting with the approval of PACER in 1988. Learn why mandatory e-filing and e-briefs makes sense.
Video: How TypeLaw brief formatting works
TypeLaw can quickly transform your draft legal brief into a compliant, hyperlinked, ready-to-file PDF. See a before & after example of a brief we prepared for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Video: How TypeLaw automatically hyperlinks citations
In this video, Attorney Madison Boucher shares an example of a formatted, hyperlinked brief that TypeLaw helped prepare for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. See how easy it is to hyperlink citations to authority and to the record.
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