NY Appellate Brief Formatting

I am working on a New York Appellate Division (Second Department) filing and need an experienced professional to assist with the technical preparation of a Brief and Record on Appeal. This is a formatting and structuring task—not legal drafting. The material includes: • A nearly complete appellate brief (~30–90 pages) • Record on Appeal consisting of approximately 1500–2000 pages across multiple volumes (PDF format) Scope of Work The selected freelancer will be responsible for: • Running full OCR to ensure all PDFs are text-searchable • Merging and organizing documents without altering the existing docket order • Applying continuous pagination across volumes (as instructed) • Creating hierarchical bookmarks for all major sections (volumes → documents → sub-sections) • Preparing a clean, accurate Table of Contents (TOC) matching final pagination • Formatting the brief to ensure consistency (font, spacing, structure) • Integrating key documents including: – Cover sheet – 5531 Statement – Notice/Copy of Appeal • Delivering a court-ready, NYSCEF-compliant PDF Important Instructions • The record is already organized by docket number—do not reorder documents • Accuracy in pagination and TOC alignment is critical • Final output must be clean, navigable, and suitable for Appellate Division filing • Experience with legal document formatting or appellate filings is strongly preferred Deliverables • Fully OCR-processed, text-searchable PDF • Properly paginated and bookmarked Brief & Record • Table of Contents (Word + final integrated version) • Final consolidated PDF ready for NYSCEF upload Timeline • Initial draft (structured sample) required within 24–48 hours • Full completion within 3–5 days Ideal Candidate • Strong experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC • Prior work with court filings / legal PDFs / appellate records • High attention to detail and ability to handle large-volume documents Additional Note Please share examples of similar work (redacted samples are fine). Accuracy and reliability are more important than speed.

Project ID: 40364684