Ohio Loc. App. R. 2.21
When an appeal also involves a cross-appeal, or where two appeals have been consolidated by order of the court thereby resulting in the parties to the appeal presenting competing assignments of error, the party first in time in filing a notice of appeal shall be designated appellant/cross-appellee and shall file a merit brief within the time provided by App.R. 18(A), or as may be extended by order of this court. The party second in time in filing a notice of appeal shall be designated appellee/cross-appellant. Upon the filing of appellant/cross-appellee's merit brief, the appellee/cross-appellant shall file as one brief a first response to appellant/cross-appellee's asserted errors and then set forth the cross assignments of error and arguments thereto. This brief shall be filed within the time provided by App.R. 18(A), or as may be extended by order of this court. Thereafter, appellant/cross-appellee shall file as one brief a responsive brief in answer to appellee/cross-appellant's assignments of error and a reply brief, if any, in rebuttal to the cross-appellee's answer brief. Appellee/cross-appellant shall then file a reply brief, if any, in rebuttal to the cross-appellee's answer brief. Each brief shall clearly designate on its face the nature of the brief being filed and shall divide the brief into clearly designated sections. No other briefs shall be filed without leave of court. Subject to Loc.R. 2.2(A), each division of the initial brief and answer brief shall not exceed twenty-five pages, and each reply section shall not exceed ten pages.
Ohio. Loc. App. R. 2.21