Tag your citations and mark your headings, and the Table of Authorities and Table of Contents build themselves — with page numbers that recalculate as you edit, so you never renumber a TOA by hand the night before filing.
Why the Night-Before Build Goes Wrong
Generating a Table of Authorities by hand means finding every citation, grouping the repeats, and counting the page each one falls on — then doing it again every time an edit pushes the pages. A separate build step is a separate chance for the TOA to fall out of sync with the brief you actually file.
How Pleadit Builds the TOA
- Tag a citation with Cmd+Shift+C. Pleadit sorts it into the right category — Cases, Constitutional Provisions, Statutes, Court Rules, or Secondary Sources.
- Repeats group automatically, and an authority that appears on five or more pages is marked passim, consistent with California Rules of Court 8.204.
- Dot leaders and hanging indents are applied for you, and the page numbers recalculate dynamically as you edit — there is no separate build step to leave stale.
How Pleadit Builds the TOC
- Mark a heading with Cmd+Shift+H, and it appears in the Table of Contents with the correct page number.
- The TOC and the in-text heading stay in sync in both directions — edit either one and the other follows.
Why It Matters
Tag your citations. Mark your headings. The TOA and TOC build themselves, and they stay correct through every edit up to the moment you file.
The same approach drives Pleadit's dynamic exhibit references, which renumber automatically when the exhibit order changes.