Nothing spoils the moment of post-filing relief like a notification from the Seventh Circuit Clerk’s Office telling you that the court cannot accept your brief. Unfortunately, the clerk says, your jurisdictional statement does not comply with the appellate and circuit rules. It is easy to treat that section as an afterthought — to write it hurriedly at the end of the process along with other parts of the brief’s front matter. But counsel should not let the apparently rote nature of the jurisdictional statement fool them. Click here to read the full article originally published by The Circuit Rider.