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Tenth Circuit Offers Training Program for Using the Electronic Record on Appeal

By Shari Allison

The Tenth Circuit is offering a training program on using Adobe's markup tools to review and manipulate an electronic record on appeal (ROA). The program will be held on Friday, April 23, 2010 from 10 a.m. to noon in Denver, Colorado, in the Byron White U.S. Courthouse training room. According to SueAnn Fitch, CJA Supervising Attorney, the training room has 16 computers with the necessary software installed, so attendees don't need to bring a computer or purchase anything to participate. However, there is room for only 16 attorneys.She notes that, with very limited exceptions, ROAs are now being filed in electronic format in the 10th Circuit. Thus the ROA is no longer available in hard copy for CJA counsel to "borrow." However, she says, "The good news is that on-screen markup tools are far more efficient than all those little yellow stickies you've been placing all over transcripts and pleadings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).