Appellate Practice Reminders Annual Attorney Registration for 2017-2018

• Jurisdiction: Kansas,United States
• Citation: Vol. 86 No. 7 Pg. 80
• Pages: 80
• Publication year: 2017

Appellate Practice Reminders Annual Attorney Registration for 2017-2018 No. 86 J. Kan. Bar Assn 7, 80 (2017) Kansas Bar Journal August, 2017

July, 2017

By Douglas T. Shima, Judge

Appellate Practice Reminders

From the Appellate Court Clerk's Office

Starting off on the right foot.

Filing a notice of appeal does not end an attorney's duty to perfect an appeal in the appellate courts. Filing a docketing statement is the next step in making sure the appellate courts have jurisdiction to consider your appeal.

Recently, with mandatory efiling, the Supreme Court amended Rules 2.04 and 2.041 to address several issues with docketing statements. Rule 2.04 provides the only instance when multiple documents can be submitted in the same filing. Not only must an attorney comply with the list of required documents, but the documents must be in a specific order. Rule 2.04(a)(3) states, "Required Sequence. To electronically docket an appeal, an attorney must upload the required documents in the order listed under subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) and file the required documents in a single submission in the appellate courts' electronic filing system." The required sequence is essential to ensure an orderly and efficient determination by the docketing clerks that an appeal...