Affidavi / Notes / Who builds the record

Who actually makes a record court-ready

For the clerks, assistants and students

The lawyer's name is on the factum. The person who tabbed it, built the index, hyperlinked every exhibit and made sure the numbers matched — that's who court-readiness actually depends on.

The invisible work

Assembling a motion record or a productions brief is hours of exact, unglamorous work: ordering documents, inserting tab pages, building an index whose numbers match the record, drawing hyperlinks from every exhibit reference to its exhibit and back, checking that scanned pages are searchable, naming files to the portal's rules. It is precise, it is repetitive, and it is the first thing to buckle when a filing deadline arrives.

And when a tab is missing, a link is dead, or a number doesn't match, it's usually the person who assembled the record who hears about it — not the person who signed it.

Tools should serve that work

Affidavi was built for the people doing it: tabs, a matching index, exhibit links in both directions, portal-safe file names and respected page caps, produced in one pass so the deadline crunch doesn't come out of your evening. To the clerks, assistants and students who make records usable — this one's for you.

Related: See also: how to prepare an electronic motion record