The Appeals On CD application is designed to assist Court Clerks in the Appellate Departments of the trial courts in the time-consuming and cumbersome preparation of the Clerk's Transcript, comprised of documents filed by the court and parties to a case.

When a party files a Notice of Appeal in a case, shortly thereafter they are required to file a Notice designating the papers or records to be included in the Clerk's Transcript on Appeal. The Notice lists all documents contained within the court's file in the particular case that the party designates to be included in the Clerk's Transcript. The opposing party in the case also has an opportunity to file a Notice designating additional documents to be included in the Clerk's Transcript. Depending upon the case type, the Clerk's Transcript may consist of anywhere from a few documents to several hundred.

Working in conjunction with ISD Corporation's eICMS Civil Module and electronic imaging applications, the Appeals On CD system accesses case information from eICMS and stores it in a database on a computer located in the Appellate Department of the court. This database contains all electronic imaged documents associated with a particular case.

In lieu of locating and manually copying all documents in the court's paper file, which are listed on a party's Notice designating the papers or records to be included in the Clerk's Transcript, a clerk using Appeals on CD simply accesses the case in the database, checks off the documents listed on the Notice and hits "print." A complete copy of the Clerk's Transcript is printed in a fraction of the time it takes to manually locate and copy all of the documents, and it is ready for transmittal to the Appellate Court and the parties.