Compliant FormatTing
Perfect legal brief formatting, in minutes
No need to look up the intricate rules of court or worry about specific electronic filing requirements. TypeLaw knows how to format all elements of your brief perfectly to meet the exacting local rules of court, for any court—and it does it in minutes.
Spend time where it counts
Line spacing, font size, margins, bookmarks…there’s a seemingly endless list of rules to know—and follow exactly—to ensure that your brief is compliant.
Instead of frustrating late-night scrambles, let TypeLaw automatically format your draft and send back a fully-compliant, ready-to-file PDF overnight (or even the same day).
We add electronic bookmarks, ensure your text is searchable, add signatures…meet any and all e-formatting requirements for the federal or state court in which you’re filing.
Avoid the risk of rejection
Nothing looks more unprofessional in front of the court, your colleagues, and your client than sloppy, technical errors. TypeLaw protects your reputation.
WIth TypeLaw, you focus on your brief’s substance and perfecting your argument and our powerful AI technology handles all the formatting—and makes it perfect, in minutes.
To guarantee that we’ve got it right, an expert lawyer performs a final quality check before we send back your ready-to-file PDF brief.
We’ve formatted 10,000+ briefs for every level of court, so you can trust TypeLaw quality.
Can a legal brief be beautiful?
Our advanced typographic technology ensures that not only will your brief be 100% compliant, it might just be the most attractive, readable brief you’ve ever seen.
Customers often tell us that opposing counsel actually commented on how “beautiful” their brief was—and asked how they did it.
Let TypeLaw be your secret weapon.
See a sample hyperlinked brief TypeLaw prepared for an award-winning client.
Related Resources
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LawNext Podcast: New Research from TypeLaw on Legal Briefs
Bob Ambrogi recently hosted TypeLaw’s CEO on the LawNext podcast to discuss the challenge of brief formatting and TypeLaw’s research on the anatomy of a brief. Watch the interview here.
Research: The Anatomy of a Legal Brief
We analyzed 10,000+ legal briefs to determine the composition of an average brief and help legal professionals better understand the briefing process. See the summarized findings in this infographic.
Platform Features
Compliant formatting
No need to look up the intricate rules of court or worry about complicated electronic filing requirements. TypeLaw’s powerful AI knows how to format your brief perfectly to meet the exacting requirements of any court—and it does it in minutes.
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Hyperlinking
Make it easy for the court to follow and adopt your argument. TypeLaw can hyperlink all your citations to authority and the record automatically—saving you hours of research and formatting hassle.
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Brief editing
No more late nights updating tables or wrestling with re-pagination just because you need to make a last-minute change. With TypeLaw’s purpose-built brief editor, you can make unlimited edits and your tables, pagination, and formatting update automatically as you go.
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Table building
Get perfect tables every time, automatically and without mind-numbing hours of manual work or dealing with unreliable, cumbersome Word plugins. TypeLaw’s powerful AI will automatically build you accurate, elegant tables of contents and authorities—and update them in an instant if you make a change.
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Citations
Don’t let small technical errors or typos damage your credibility with the court. TypeLaw knows how to perfectly format any citation and catches citation mistakes before they impact your reputation.
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Exhibits
Want to attach an exhibit, create an appendix, or compile excerpts of record automatically? TypeLaw automatically OCRs your PDFs, builds your indexes and tables, adds electronic bookmarks, and splits volumes according to court rules. Make a change and your indexes, bookmarks, and pagination update automatically.
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