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Would love to hear from other clerks (especially COA clerks) what the internal chambers review process was like for a bench memo or opinion before you circulated it to other chambers or filed. Ie, did you do an internal cite check?

Bench memos received a single round of internal cite checking/light edits before going to the judge and were not typically shared externally. Opinions were cite checked by two coclerks and the JA; all opinions were line edited by all clerks. Judge revisions/editing began after the first cite check, and the number of rounds of revisions with the judge depended on the complexity of the opinion.