Appellate Advocacy Research Guide: Appellate Advocacy Rules

This page contains links to Illinois and federal appellate court rules in three formats:

• rules in print
• rules from commercial databases, and
• rules from court and other free websites

These desk books are available in the Library.  Annotated versions of the Illinois rules and the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure are available through the annotated sets of Illinois Compiled Statutes and the United States Code (USCA and USCS) respectively.

Below are links to pertinent Illinois and federal rules of appellate procedure, including the local court rules for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the local rules for the Illinois Court of Appeals, First District.