When must counsel file a direct bankruptcy appeal representation statement?

Read the direct-appeal authorization order and verify its entry date.

Check whether the court of appeals designated another time for representation statements.

Identify each attorney’s represented parties and the circuit clerk’s filing requirements.

Do not substitute certification, original bankruptcy notice or later circuit record filing.

1. Verify the scoped appeal route and actual triggering event.
2. Exclude that triggering day.
3. Count fourteen calendar days.
4. Check final-day holidays, inaccessibility and actual directions.

Exclude the verified triggering day and count every calendar day under FRAP 26(a)(1). If the final day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, continue to the next open day. Check actual inaccessibility and any applicable order.

FRAP 26(a)(6) includes the listed federal holidays and days declared holidays by the President or Congress. For a period after an event, it also includes holidays declared by the state where the challenged district court or the circuit clerk’s principal office is located. Read the Rule 6 court substitutions, actual court calendar and closure notices. The national calculator does not infer extra state holidays or inaccessibility.

Fictitious example

In a fictitious scoped proceeding, the direct-appeal authorization order is validly entered on July 6, 2026. Exclude July 6. Fourteen calendar days ends on Monday, July 20. Assume no additional state holiday, inaccessibility or different court direction.

Fictitious dates. Assume no extra holiday, inaccessibility or different court direction. Verify the actual required act and clerk.

Every party’s attorney

Rule 6(c)(2)(K) assigns the duty to the attorney for each party, not solely to the appellant’s attorney.

A different designated time

The fourteen-day period is the default. An actual different time designated by the court of appeals controls this representation procedure.

Circuit filing and named parties

File with the circuit clerk and name the parties the attorney represents on appeal.

Separate record and ordinary route

Rule 6(c)(1)(A) excludes Rules 9–12 on this direct route. Rule 6(c)(2)(H)–(J) governs record steps separately. Rule 12(b)’s ordinary notice-filing trigger is not this trigger.

• This guide does not establish appellate jurisdiction, decide whether certification became effective, read case orders or supply a court-specific fee amount.
• Initial bankruptcy notice, underlying record assembly, stay requests and direct-appeal authorization require their own procedures.

• Verify the direct-appeal authorization order and entry date.
• Check actual circuit directions for a different time.
• Each party’s attorney must identify the represented parties.
• File the representation statement with the circuit clerk.
• Preserve accepted filing and required service evidence.
• File the representation statement with the circuit clerk. FRAP 26(a)(4)(B) uses midnight in the time zone of the circuit clerk’s principal office for electronic filing. Ordinary paper filing requires receipt by the scheduled office closing time. Check FRAP 25, local requirements, service and actual inaccessibility. The brief/appendix dispatch exception does not itself apply to this statement.