Say "Your Honor."
Stand when the judge enters. Wait your turn. Speak to the bench, not across the aisle. Phone off.
Small habits. Judges notice.
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600 pages. Ask one question.
Upload the whole PDF to Prosei (up to 600 pages). Search it like a question. Read the pages that matter, skip the ones that don't.
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The order has a number in it.
10. 20. 21. 30. That's your response window.
Find the number. Find what starts the count. Count it your court's way. Calendar it.
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Showing up is a strategy.
On time. Copies in hand. Last order read all the way through.
You don't have to be the most polished person in the room. You have to be in the room, ready. #ProSe
Binder people or laptop people?
Color tabs and a table of contents, or everything scanned and searchable?
(Most of you: both, plus a pile on the counter.) Comment yours. #ProSe
One filing, four parts.
Motion (the request). Declaration (your sworn facts). Exhibits (the proof). Proof of service (they got a copy).
Courts vary on extras. Check local rules.
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E-FILING, step by step, inside Prosei:
Pick documents. Confirm filing type. Answer the court's questions. Pay the court fee. Get confirmation.
Now in CA, GA, IL, IN, MD, NV, TX, VA. Court fees apply.
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Exhibits: label, number, index.
Label every exhibit the same way. Number the pages inside each one. Put a one-page index up front.
Anyone can find any page in seconds. Check your court's format rules.
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No one knows your case like you.
The facts were never the problem. Getting them out of your head and into a form the court can see is the work.
Organize it so they can read it. #ProSe
Proof of service is your receipt.
A signed form filed with the court: what was served, on whom, when, how, by whom.
It's how the court knows the other side got the papers. File it. Keep a copy.
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E-PROCESS SERVING, inside your Prosei case.
Pick the documents and recipient, see the fee up front, pay in-app, get status by email.
Now in CA, GA, IL, IN, MD, NV, TX, VA. Fees apply.
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"Served" has rules.
Who can deliver (often not you). How (in person, mail, other allowed methods). Proof (a signed form filed with the court).
Miss one and it may not count. Check your court's rule.
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Dates beat adjectives.
"He's always late" is a feeling.
"March 3, 9 and 12, each 40+ minutes late" is a record.
Write the date. Skip the adjective. #ProSe
A motion is just a request.
In writing. To the judge. With a reason. Then your signature and a copy to the other side.
Format rules vary by court. The concept doesn't.
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Deadlines, pulled from your court docs.
Upload the order. The dates inside it land on your case calendar for you to confirm. Nothing hides in paragraph nine.
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Courts are closed for Labor Day. Deadline due today?
In many courts a deadline on a court holiday rolls to the next business day. Not all. Check how your court counts days.
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Preparation outlasts intimidation.
The nerves fade the moment your matter is called. The binder you built doesn't.
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