Every reference in the document updates itself — exhibit letters, page numbers, Tables of Authorities, and Tables of Contents. Reorganize the brief and the document keeps up.
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The Problem
You're drafting a motion. You cite "Exhibit A, page 10" in paragraph 12, then "Exhibit A, page 15" in paragraph 18. You have 15 exhibit references throughout your brief, then opposing counsel produces more discovery—or you realize a different document should come first. Now Exhibit A needs to become Exhibit C.
You spend the next hour or more hunting through your document, manually changing every "Exhibit A" to "Exhibit C." One mistake could make you look careless and jeopardize your credibility in front of the judge.
The rest of legal document preparation has the same problems:
- Microsoft Word — line numbers that drift, spacing that breaks when you paste, margins that reset between sessions. You spend more time fighting the software than drafting your argument.
- Clio, MyCase, and other practice management tools — capable case management, but no document editor. You still end up in Word for pleadings, briefs, and motions — then copy-paste between programs.
- Court and agency forms — federal, state, county, and administrative — repetitive data entry across dozens of fields, manually re-typed into every new matter.
- Proofs of service, declarations, repetitive filings — manually changing names, case numbers, and party information repeatedly.
Generating quality work product shouldn't require juggling multiple programs, hunting through folders, or wrestling with technical headaches.
The Solution
Pleadit™ is software to produce work product — document editors for pleadings, briefs, and motions, court-compliant formatting, an auto-populating engine for the court and agency forms you file, and an evidence locker, all in one application. It features the legal industry's first integrated editor for pleadings, briefs, and notices, Dynamic Evidence Reference System, and live Table of Authorities and Table of Contents.
How it works
No manual updates. No reference errors. Functional PDF hyperlinks.
Pleadit is already in use on active cases.
Why This Matters
Time Savings
Hours saved per case. Days saved per month. Weeks saved across your caseload.
No fighting Word's formatting. No repetitive data entry — template variables populate client, case, and court information automatically. No templates to find or create. Just one application for work product.
Accuracy
Reference errors undermine credibility. Pleadit ensures exhibit letters, internal page numbers, and PDF page references stay synchronized. Your Table of Authorities and Table of Contents stay accurate as you edit — page numbers recalculate live. Attorney, client, case, and court information populates consistently across all forms and documents.
Professionalism
PDF hyperlinks allow judges to navigate directly to cited evidence — an advantage over opposing counsel's static filings. All data and work stays securely on your device.
Flexibility
Restructure your exhibit list at any point — even after a last-minute document production. References adapt automatically. Switch between court formatting presets — CA Superior, CA Appellate, Federal, 9th Circuit — without reformatting your document.
What's inside
One Editor. Every Legal Document.
An editor for pleadings, briefs, motions, and correspondence — no Word needed.
- Built for everything you file — briefs, motions, pleadings (including the California 28-line numbered format), notices on letterhead, demand letters, and meet-and-confer.
- Caption pages auto-populate — court, county, case number, parties, attorney block. Filled in the moment you open a new document. No retyping the same heading on every motion.
- Drop a variable anywhere — any document, any form. Client name, case number, judge, today's date, firm logo, drawn signature — pulled live from your case data.
- Reusable document templates — save any document as a template. Formatting, caption, and layout all stay intact. Build it once, use it on every matching matter.
- Fully customizable formatting — margins, headers, footers, fonts, line spacing — set per document or saved into a template. One-click presets for California Superior, California Appellate, Federal, and 9th Circuit. Match any court's local rules.
- Table of Authorities and Table of Contents in one click — page numbers update as you edit. No more renumbering by hand the night before filing.
- PDF export, ready to file — formatted exactly the way the court receives it, with PDF bookmarks for e-filing built in. No Adobe Pro required.
Move an exhibit. Every citation knows.
Citing evidence usually means typing "See Exhibit A, p. 4" by hand, then re-typing it every time discovery shifts the exhibit order.
In Pleadit, press Cmd+Shift+X, pick the evidence and the page, and Pleadit drops a live reference into the document. The default format is "Ex. A, p. 3 (PDF p. 63)," but you set it per document — match whatever your court or firm prefers. Reorder the exhibits and every reference recalculates automatically.
- Click in the editor — jump to the cited exhibit page.
- Click in the exported PDF — the judge lands on the exact page.
- Configurable citation format — short form, long form, with or without compiled PDF page numbers.
Works across motions, declarations, briefs — anywhere you cite evidence.
All evidence. One place.
Centralized storage for all case evidence. Upload once, cite precisely throughout your pleadings.
- Supports PDFs, images, and documents.
- Cite specific pages directly from the editor.
- Exhibits compile at the end of your document, ready to file.
Forms that fill themselves.
Pleadit's in-app Form Mapper turns the forms you actually file into reusable templates. Your state's cover sheets, your federal filings, your county-specific forms, your agency forms — map each one once to your case-data fields, and Pleadit fills them from your case file on every future matter.
Enter firm, attorney, client, and case data once. Map each form to those variables a single time. From then on, every matter populates the caption, parties, and attorney block automatically — and you can edit the rest in Pleadit's built-in PDF editor, with drafts persisted between sessions.
California attorneys also get a starter library of pre-mapped Judicial Council templates — Family Law, Domestic Violence, Civil, Summons, Subpoenas — included out of the box.
Type it once. Use it forever.
Store frequently used text — statutory citations, standard requests, boilerplate language.
- Functions in all editors and court forms.
- Insert saved text with one click.
- Eliminates redundant typing across cases.
Your data stays put.
Cyberattacks are surging in legal tech, with 1/5 law firms attacked this past year. Of firms that suffer a breach, 56% lose sensitive client data — and the average breach costs $5.08 million. Clients care, with nearly 40% saying they would fire or consider firing a firm that experienced a breach.
With Pleadit, all data stays on your computer. No cloud servers or third-party server access. No login credentials exposed. Client information stays under your control.
Comparison
| Feature | Today's stack Word + Clio/MyCase | Pleadit |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in document editor | Word only | |
| Reusable document templates | Word — templates break | |
| Auto-populated caption pages | ||
| Drop-in case-data variables | ||
| Auto-updating exhibit references | ||
| Evidence locker / exhibit organization | ||
| One-click Table of Authorities and Table of Contents | ||
| Court formatting presets | ||
| Auto-populating court PDFs | ||
| PDF e-filing bookmarks | needs Adobe Pro | |
| Local-first (no cloud) |