appellate-formatting-certification

Drafts a Motion for Conditional Certification under FLSA § 216(b) for wage and hour collective actions. Applies the two-stage certification framework with similarly-situated analysis and proposed notice plan. Use when filing for conditional certification, FLSA collective action notice, opt-in certification, or wage and hour class-wide claims in federal court.

Standardizes U.S. court-filing formatting for pleadings, motions, and briefs. Enforces caption structure, margins, fonts, spacing, pagination, line numbering, and e-filing constraints. Use when formatting court documents, preparing filings, or validating local-rules compliance.

Builds a filing-ready formatting blueprint for U.S. litigation pleadings, motions, and briefs by applying caption, spacing, pagination, certificate, and e-filing requirements with court-specific local-rule overrides. Use when preparing court documents, checking filing compliance, generating exhibit packages, or converting drafts for e-filing. Triggers: court filing format, caption, page limits, line numbers, service certificate, PDF/A, local rules, judge instructions.

Drafts a federal or state court order certifying a class action under Rule 23. Triggers when formalizing class certification after a granted motion, drafting certification orders, or preparing rulings for appellate review. Covers Rule 23(a) findings, Rule 23(b) analysis, class definition, counsel appointment under Rule 23(g), and notice provisions.

Drafts a Motion for Class Certification under FRCP 23 or state equivalents, arguing numerosity, commonality, typicality, adequacy, predominance, and superiority from case materials. Use when drafting class certification motions, seeking class treatment, or preparing Rule 23 briefing in discovery or pre-trial phases.

Drafts formal appellate mandates that conclude the appeal process and direct trial courts to implement appellate decisions. Extracts disposition language, remand directives, and procedural history from appellate records to construct jurisdiction-specific mandate orders. Use when preparing mandate orders, returning jurisdiction to lower courts, or formalizing appellate dispositions after ruling.

Generates appellate-filing-ready Tables of Contents, Tables of Authorities, and Certificates of Compliance under FRAP 32(g) and related rules. Produces defensible word-count calculations with transparent exclusions and anti-hallucination guardrails for pagination and citations. Covers federal circuits, state appellate courts, and U.S. Supreme Court variations. Use when building TOC, TOA, compliance certificates, formatting briefs for filing, or when the user mentions word count calculation, FRAP 32 compliance, appellate brief assembly, or page numbering.

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Creates structured surgical consultation responses with assessment and surgical candidacy determination. Use when responding to surgical consults, evaluating surgical candidates, or documenting surgical recommendations.

Creates structured operative notes with findings, technique, specimens, and estimated blood loss. Use when dictating operative reports, documenting surgical procedures, or recording intraoperative findings.

Creates IRB submission packages with protocol summaries, consent forms, and risk-benefit analysis. Use when submitting to IRB, preparing ethics applications, or writing consent documents.

Structures NIH/foundation grant applications with specific aims, significance, and innovation sections. Use when writing research grants, preparing NIH applications, or structuring grant proposals.