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DocketDrafter in Practice

One Tuesday at a North Carolina appellate firm.

DocketDrafter works inside Claude and ChatGPT. Ask, and your AI assembles the record on appeal and the Rule 9(d) volume from the trial court file: the cover, the index, continuous page numbers on every page, and slip sheets for duplicate exhibits. When the record changes, every page number that depends on it changes too.

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  1. 9:05 AM

    Appellee’s counsel signed the stipulation last night. The record goes to the Court of Appeals this week.

    The record is ready, and nobody numbered a page by hand.

    Claude CoworkHartsell – record on appeal
    The stipulation is signed. Put together the printed record and the Rule 9(d) volume for Hartsell.
    Read 16 files, used DocketDrafter

    Both volumes are ready. The printed record runs 24 pages and the Rule 9(d) volume 51, each with its cover and index. Every page carries its record page number, the trial court’s scanned papers included. The stipulation gives both page counts, and the Statement of Transcript Option is cited at the page where it actually prints.

    Record on Appeal and Rule 9(d) Volume – Hartsell Mechanical v. Pruitt RidgeDocuments · PDF
    The index to a North Carolina record on appeal, listing the statements of organization and jurisdiction, the complaint, answer, summary judgment papers, the order and notice of appeal, the stipulation and the certificates, each with its record page after a dot leader
    A scanned superior court order granting summary judgment, with the clerk’s filed stamp in the corner and record page 14 printed at the top center
    The record’s index, and the trial court’s order on page 14, where the index says it is.

  2. 11:20 AM

    Appellee’s counsel called back. They want the affidavit from their summary judgment motion in the record after all.

    One more document, and every page number after it moves on its own.

    Claude CoworkHartsell – record on appeal
    Add their Notice of Filing of the Pruitt affidavit to the record, right after their motion for summary judgment.
    Used DocketDrafter

    Added at page 12. Everything after it moved two pages: the order is now at 14, and the record runs 24 pages instead of 22. The index, the stipulation’s page count, and the cite to the Statement of Transcript Option all changed with it. Nothing before page 12 moved.

    Record on Appeal – Hartsell Mechanical v. Pruitt RidgeDocument · PDF

  3. 2:00 PM

    Both sides attached the subcontract and the close-out emails to their summary judgment briefs.

    The duplicates are out, and each slip sheet names the right pages.

    Claude CoworkHartsell – Rule 9(d) volume
    Their brief repeats our Exhibits C and D. Replace their copies in the 9(d) volume with slip sheets.
    Used DocketDrafter

    Done. Their Exhibits 1 and 4 are now slip sheets pointing to the originals at Doc. Ex. 27-30 and 31-33, and the volume came down from 56 pages to 51. If anything ahead of those exhibits moves, the slip sheets will follow it.

    Rule 9(d) Volume – Hartsell Mechanical v. Pruitt RidgeDocument · PDF
    The index to a Rule 9(d) volume, listing the plaintiff’s memorandum in opposition and Exhibits A through D, then the defendant’s brief and Exhibits 1 through 4, two of them marked as slip sheets, each with its page number
    A slip sheet on page 36 of the Rule 9(d) volume reading: Exhibit 1 to Brief in Support of Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, Subcontract Agreement, Duplicate Copy Omitted, Original Set Forth in its Entirety on Doc. Ex. 27-30
    The Rule 9(d) volume’s index, and the slip sheet that replaces the appellee’s copy of the subcontract.

  4. 4:30 PM

    The brief is due thirty days after the record is mailed. The partner wants the facts in draft before the argument.

    Record cites that point to the right page.

    Claude CoworkHartsell – appellant’s brief
    Draft the statement of the facts from the record and the 9(d) volume. Cite the R and Doc. Ex. pages.
    Read 2 files, used DocketDrafter

    The statement of the facts is drafted, and every cite goes to the stamped page: the order at R p 14, the close-out email at Doc. Ex. 32. Pruitt Ridge’s admission that it never objected to the lien waiver is only in the excerpts at Doc. Ex. 7-9, so I quoted it from there and flagged it for you to check against the full transcript.

    Appellant’s Brief – Statement of the FactsDocument · DOCX

  5. 6:40 PM

    An associate spent the afternoon on the argument. The partner wants her first issue statement back.

    Two people editing one brief, and a redline whenever you want one.

    Claude CoworkHartsell – revisions
    What has changed in the brief since this morning? Put the first issue statement back the way I wrote it.
    Used DocketDrafter

    Here is a redline of everything changed since this morning. The first issue statement is back to your wording, and the rest of her work is untouched, record cites included. Both versions are kept if you change your mind.

    Appellant’s Brief – revision historyDocument · DOCX

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