Capabilities / Routine motions
Routine motion practice
There are no small motions.
Most of a federal case is not the big motion. It is leave to amend, the stay fight, the objection to the magistrate judge, the sur-reply. Docket Entry drafts each one to the rules of the court where you file it.
What the firm hands over
- The case.
- The motion the other side filed, or the motion your firm needs to make.
What comes back
- A draft within the hour.
- The court’s page limits, local rules, and standing orders applied before the first word.
- A motion, opposition, or reply your lawyers review, revise, and sign.
A docket full of small motions costs days.
Leave to amend. A stay. An objection to the magistrate judge. A sur-reply. Each is small. Together they are not. Every motion takes days the firm does not bill, and those days come out of another case. Docket Entry drafts each one. Your firm’s cost per motion is a review and a decision.
A motion struck for form costs you days.
Every court sets its own page limits, local rules, and standing orders, and judges enforce them. Docket Entry reads the court’s rules before it writes the first word. Your lawyers receive a draft already in the form that court requires.
The heaviest motion
Summary judgment, opposed in about a day.
Summary judgment is the heaviest motion in a case: every deposition, every exhibit, every disputed fact. Docket Entry works through the whole record. Your lawyers sharpen the opposition. They do not assemble it. This is the one motion on this page offered by invitation.
- Every sentence traces to the testimony or exhibit behind it.
- The other side’s statement of facts answered point by point, with your own statement of the facts in dispute.
- Your lawyers decide what to press, what to concede, and how the story is told.
Summary judgment, by invitation Discovery: where the record is made
Take the small motions off the calendar.
Your firm’s real work. On your own infrastructure.