Appeals can involve large records, strict document organization and significant administrative work. Resolve WNY provides nonlegal document and administrative support to help self-represented individuals and attorneys organize appellate materials efficiently and clearly.

Our role is administrative. The client or supervising attorney provides the substantive legal content, decisions and direction.

Appellate Record & Document Organization

Depending on the matter and the direction provided, support may include:

• Organizing existing court records and case documents
• Organizing exhibits and supporting materials
• Creating document indexes and tables from information provided
• Chronologically organizing orders, decisions, transcripts and correspondence
• Pagination and document assembly
• PDF organization, combining and bookmarking
• File naming and electronic document organization
• Identifying apparently missing documents or incomplete administrative information for client or attorney review
• Creating organized electronic or physical appellate files

Transcription, Formatting & Document Production

Resolve WNY can provide clerical assistance with materials prepared by a self-represented client or supervising attorney, including:

• Transcribing client- or attorney-provided content
• Formatting documents and correspondence
• Typing from notes, dictation or other provided materials
• Applying attorney- or client-directed revisions
• Preparing tables, indexes and supporting document sets
• Converting and organizing documents into usable electronic formats
• Preparing copies and document packets
• Other administrative document-production tasks

Support for Self-Represented Individuals

If you are handling an appeal without an attorney, Resolve WNY can help you organize the documents and information you already have and provide clerical assistance with materials you direct us to prepare.

We can also help you identify questions that should be addressed with an attorney when the issue requires legal interpretation or strategy.

Support for Attorneys

Attorneys may also use Resolve WNY for administrative support when managing document-intensive appellate matters.

Services may include record organization, document production, transcription, exhibit preparation, PDF organization, indexing and other attorney-directed administrative work. The supervising attorney remains responsible for all substantive legal content, legal analysis, filing decisions and professional review.

Filing & Administrative Support

When appropriate, Resolve WNY may provide administrative assistance with assembling, organizing and submitting documents according to instructions supplied by the client, supervising attorney, court or publicly available filing resources.

Responsibility for determining applicable filing requirements, deadlines and legal compliance remains with the self-represented litigant or supervising attorney.

Important to Know

Resolve WNY does not provide appellate legal advice or representation. We do not determine whether an order or judgment is appealable; calculate or advise clients regarding legal deadlines; identify appellate issues; conduct legal research or develop legal arguments; determine standards of review; write substantive appellate arguments or briefs; interpret appellate rules for a client's particular circumstances; determine what should be included or excluded from a record as a matter of law; or predict the outcome of an appeal.

Self-represented individuals who need guidance regarding appellate rights, deadlines, legal arguments, procedural requirements or strategy should consult a licensed attorney.