Arguing a case before the United States Supreme Court is one of the highest honors a lawyer can have, and one of the greatest challenges. As a lawyer admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, Legal Printers' President and co-founder, Arthur Chotin, knows how much work goes into the preparation of a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari and then, if the Court grants the Petition, into the Briefs on the Merits.
Understanding the Rules of the U. S. Supreme Court as they apply to the preparation of documents has always been quite a job. Unlike most other courts, the Supreme Court requires specified typefaces and point sizes, paper of a certain weight and of non-standard size (6 1/8" x 9 1/4"), different color covers for each type of document, typeset appendices and now, with new Rules coming into effect for the October 2007 term, word counts will become critical and typeface options more limited. Lawyers should be concerned with the substance of their case and not with the details of how to get their brief into "Supreme Court" form.
And that is where Legal Printers comes in!
We're experts not only in typesetting and printing, but also in the Rules of the Supreme Court. So when questions come up like, "How do I insert a live signature?" or "How should the Appendix be numbered?" we'll have the answer. We specialize in printing U.S. Supreme Court briefs.
Legal Printers can typeset your brief from either disk or hard copy. We can scan the documents for your Appendix, run the output through our sophisticated Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, then proofread and polish the results to come up with a typeset Appendix. Then, after you have had an opportunity to review the documents and make any changes you require, we can print and bind your brief, file it with the Clerk of the Court and serve it on opposing counsel.
But that's not all we can do. Since many law firms today use sophisticated word processing software that can produce near-typeset quality documents, you can do the typesetting, thereby lowering your costs significantly, and leave the printing to us. We can guide you and your word processing operators through the technical maze, telling you what margins to set and what fonts to use (and just as important, what not to use).
And when the document is finished, you can e-mail it directly to us at briefs@legalprinters.com. We'll print and bind it, serve your adversaries and have it filed with the Supreme Court by your deadline. Because we're right here in Washington, we can file it in real time instead of relying on "mail by" deadlines. And because we are set up for fast turnaround, we can meet deadlines others cannot. Legal Printers is your top choice for U.S. Supreme Court Brief printer.
So call us the next time you're preparing a Supreme Court Brief or Petition. That way, you can handle the arguments, and leave the rest to us.