## Q60 key (Post-Trial Preservation)

1. The attorney-fee motion is due Friday, May 15, 2026, 14 calendar days after May 1. It does not toll appeal and cannot await the merits ruling. Missed: the approximately $185,000 fee claim is forfeited while counsel waits on an unrelated motion.
2. The rule-1 motion is due Friday, May 29, 2026, 28 calendar days after May 1. It must request alteration of the judgment to add $42,000 interest and, if pursued, a new trial based on the witness exclusion. Missed: interest and the post-trial vehicle for the evidentiary challenge are lost.
3. Without a tolling motion, the 30th day after May 1 is Sunday, May 31, so the original notice deadline moves to Monday, June 1, 2026. Missed: relying on an ordinary weekday calculation produces an untimely appeal.
4. The May 8 reconsideration motion does not toll. It concerns only an interlocutory evidentiary ruling and requests no alteration, amendment, or new trial. Its title cannot change its substance. Missed: counsel lets June 1 pass believing a nonqualifying motion stopped the clock.
5. A timely substantive rule-1 motion filed by May 29 tolls the merits appeal period. If the court disposes of it on Friday, July 10, the new 30th day is Sunday, August 9, so the notice is due Monday, August 10, 2026. Missed: counsel counts from judgment rather than disposition or overlooks the weekend extension.
6. File the fee motion by May 15, the rule-1 motion by May 29, and a fresh notice of appeal after the July 10 disposition and no later than August 10. A premature notice could become effective, but it is unnecessary and less clean. Missed: separate clocks are collapsed into one.
7. Missing May 15 loses the fee request; missing May 29 loses the post-trial relief and tolling; missing June 1 without tolling or August 10 after tolling loses appellate review. Missed: the client is told only that deadlines are urgent rather than which asset each protects.