When must the notice-filing attorney submit a representation statement?

Verify actual notice-of-appeal filing and identify the attorney who filed it.

Read any circuit direction designating a different representation time.

Identify the parties that attorney represents on appeal.

Distinguish the circuit’s later appeal docketing and record filing under Rule 12(a) and (c).

1. Verify the filing event and scoped procedure.
2. Exclude the actual filing day.
3. Count fourteen calendar days.
4. Check the final-day calendar, inaccessibility and applicable directions.

Exclude the verified filing day and count every calendar day under FRAP 26(a)(1). If the final day is Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, carry to the next open day. Read actual orders and inaccessibility notices separately.

FRAP 26(a)(6) includes the listed federal holidays, holidays declared by the President or Congress, and for a period after an event, additional state holidays where the challenged district court or circuit clerk’s principal office is located. Check the actual court and state calendars. The national calculator does not infer additional holidays, inaccessibility or granted relief.

These scoped clocks run from filing rather than service. A service-dependent FRAP 26(c) addition does not attach merely because a copy was served.

Fictitious example

In a fictitious scoped appeal, the attorney files the notice of appeal on July 6, 2026. Exclude July 6 and count fourteen calendar days. The final Monday is assumed open, with no additional state holiday, inaccessibility or different direction.

Fictitious dates. Assume the stated default applies and no extra holiday, inaccessibility or different direction. A calculated date does not establish permission or accepted filing.

Notice-filing attorney

Rule 12(b) identifies the attorney who filed the notice. It does not impose this default on every party’s attorney solely because the appeal was docketed.

Different designated time

The court of appeals may designate another representation time. Confirm actual circuit directions before using the fourteen-day default.

Circuit clerk and named parties

The attorney files the statement with the circuit clerk, naming the parties represented on appeal.

Direct bankruptcy appeal is separate

Rule 6(c)(1)(A) excludes Rules 9–12 for authorized direct bankruptcy appeals. Rule 6(c)(2)(K) uses authorization-order entry and requires the attorney for each party to file a statement.

• This guide does not infer consent, grant leave, identify a court-set date or establish electronic or paper filing acceptance.
• Check the circuit’s current local rules, actual orders and the specific appeal route.

• Verify notice filing and the notice-filing attorney.
• Read actual directions for a different designated time.
• Name the parties the attorney represents on appeal.
• File with the circuit clerk and preserve accepted filing and required service.
• Use the direct-bankruptcy procedure separately where applicable.
• FRAP 26(a)(4)(B) uses midnight in the circuit clerk’s principal-office time zone for electronic circuit filing. Ordinary paper filing requires clerk receipt and ends at scheduled office closure. Rule 25(a)(2)(A)(ii) separately permits timely dispatch of a nonelectronic brief by qualifying prepaid mail or a commercial carrier for delivery within three days. This exception does not automatically cover a separate leave motion or representation statement. Represented persons ordinarily file electronically. Confirm local directions, actual permission for paper filing, separate service and any inaccessibility.