Self-Represented: 6 Tips to Organize Your Court File Better than a Lawyer

Self-represented litigants need to have an organized court file. Here are 6 tips to help you organize you file better than a lawyer. 1. Categorize your documents into different folders: Filed, Drafts, Correspondence, Discovery, Transcripts 2. Name your documents chronologically (year-month-day) so your computer organizes them for you: e.g. 2020-03-14-Declaration-of-Joseph-Sweeney 3. Use abbreviations in your document names so you can see more of the title in your computer's window when searching your file: e.g. 2020-03-14-DEC-Joseph-Sweeney 4. Set up a separate email account just for your case. 5. Run text recognition on everything so you can find things 100X faster. 6. Organize your paper file the same way your organize your electronic file.