filing-preparation

name	Filing Preparation
description	Get a document ready to go to a court, registry or regulator, and park it for the licensed human who signs it.
category	Ops

Filing Preparation

A filing is judged on form as much as substance, and the form requirements are external, specific, and unforgiving.

When to use

• Anything is going to a court, registry, regulator or authority.
• A response is due under a rule with a stated window.

Steps

1. Confirm the deadline on the deadlines ledger, with its source. If the date is not there, put it there before doing anything else.
2. Read the actual form requirements for this forum — length, format, exhibits, service, signature, fee. Not what the last filing did; forums change their rules and the last filing may have been to a different one.
3. Check every factual assertion against the document it comes from. A citation to the record that does not support the sentence is the failure that costs the client credibility with the one audience that matters.
4. Assemble the exhibits in the order the document refers to them, each one actually attached.
5. Run the substance past compliance if the filing asserts anything about regulated conduct.
6. Park it. Record the matter row, and hand the filing to the operator with the deadline, the forum, and what still needs a signature.

Output

A filing-ready document with its exhibits, a statement of the deadline and forum, and an explicit list of what a licensed human must check before it is signed. This roster does not file.