We do the work.
You file it.
Court filings prepared to the rules of your court, on the highest authority the caption will take, at a price you can see before you buy. Every filing includes a written assessment of your position under the controlling law.
Pick your filing and your clock on the catalog. Give us the court and the date on the order when you place it.
You have a deadline and no lawyer
You get a document a court will accept, without learning the rules or hunting the case law yourself. Priced on the catalog, ordered like anything else.
See what we prepare →Priced out of counselA lawyer quoted you more than the case is worth
Filing preparation at catalog prices instead of a retainer. You keep control of the case and you remain the filer.
See the catalog →Law firms and agenciesPartner time should not go into covers and word counts
Overflow drafting on your caption, to your court's rules. Volume and custom work are a quote, not a plan.
Volume terms →What we prepare
Every state, every federal court. You do not learn the rules. You do not hunt case law. You do not format the paper. The cards are the same categories as the price list.
What do I actually receive?
A finished packet you can take to the clerk. Not an outline, not a template, not a research memo.
- 01The filing itself, formatted to your court's rules — caption, margins, fonts, spacing, page or word limits
- 02Every companion document that court requires with it — cover, certificate of service, certificate of compliance, table of authorities, IFP papers where they apply
- 03Exhibits and the record appendix, indexed and in page bands
- 04A citation ledger: every case relied on, with where it came from and why it fits your facts
- 05The deadline math, written out, with the rule the date comes from
- 06The written assessment: the best route under your court's rules, the controlling authority, and your odds under it
- 07A print-ready PDF, checked page by page
You file it. We do not enter an appearance, we do not speak for you, and we do not sign anything on your behalf.
Why does the engine produce better paper?
Most filing help is one person and a word processor. This is a 15-phase pipeline where each phase has to produce evidence before the next one can start, and three of them stop dead for a human — two you approve yourself, and a final read of the whole filing before it ships.
Intake
Every document you send is captured and transcribed page by page, enclosures listed explicitly. Nothing in your case gets acted on until it has been read in full.
Docket and clocks
Every deadline is computed from the face of the document against the rule text that creates it. An ambiguous deadline is always filed to the earlier reading, and a second independent engine re-runs the math before it is trusted.
Casefile
One master record, every transcript verbatim and in date order, checksummed against the originals so nothing quietly goes missing.
Read and autopsy
The whole record is read from the primary source this run, never from memory. An adverse order gets a line-by-line autopsy before anybody is allowed to talk strategy.
Vehicle decisionYou approve
Which filing actually gets you what you want, what it cannot do, and every companion document the court requires with it. The rules for your exact court and filing type are pulled as real rule text, not a link to a rule. Drafting cannot begin until you say go.
Research
Authority is run, never recalled. Then a four-part gate on every citation: it is real, it is quoted from the primary source, it says what we say it says, and it has not been overruled. Then the sweep runs the other way — the law against you is searched as hard as the law for you, and an unanswered adverse case pauses the line.
Second engine
An independent model gets the entire file and argues against it. Nothing it produces reaches your filing until it has cleared the same citation gate as everything else.
StrategyYou approve
Every plausible theory is either included or excluded with the reason written down — nothing is silently dropped. A preservation map records where each claim has to be raised now to stay alive in every court above. It ends in a written verdict: win, lose, or uncertain. You see that verdict before a word is drafted.
Container
The court's format rules are re-read for the exact court and filing type, and the document skeleton is generated in rule order with that court's own certificate wording already in place.
Build
Drafted component by component against that specification, so a required section cannot be forgotten.
Text attack
The draft is attacked the way the other side will attack it, then read again as a hostile judge would read it — skipping, quoting selectively, taking the worst reading. Anything that falls over is rewritten or pivoted off before it reaches a clerk.
Verify
Checked by someone other than whoever wrote it. Every citation is machine-matched back to the ledger, and a citation with no ledger row physically blocks the filing from rendering. Every number, name, date and docket number is verified against the primary source. Placeholders must be zero.
Eyes onHuman read
A complete end-to-end read that answers four questions in writing: is it good, does it follow the court's rules, is it the best we can produce, does it ship. That read can send the whole thing back to drafting.
Render
The PDF is rasterised and checked visually, page by page, on nine points: page numbers, caption alignment, case number placement, fonts and margins, spacing, service list, certificates, signatures, and stranded lines. Then a 60-second scan for the cheap things clerks bounce filings on.
File and close out
You file. The docket entry is the only proof of filing we accept, and every downstream date it triggers goes on the clock. Anything that loses is written back into the loss-pattern library, so the next filing avoids the trap that killed the last one.
Different eyes every time
Whoever drafts a filing is never the one who verifies it, and never the one who does the final read. Three separate passes, by design.
State is not federal
The wrong rulebook is the most common way a filing dies. Each rules-touching phase checks the sovereign again rather than assuming the last one got it right.
Nothing passes on a promise
A phase clears on evidence — a receipt, a file, a check that ran — not on a claim that the work was done.
Will you tell me where I really stand?
Yes, in writing, as part of the filing you order. The engine's strategy phase produces a written assessment of the best route available under your court's own rules, the controlling authority that governs it, and what that law says about your odds. That assessment is a substantial part of the work you are paying for and it is delivered with your filing. It is an operations read on the law, not legal advice, and it is not a free case evaluation or a consultation.
Winnable
There is controlling authority on your side and a vehicle that can reach it. Your filing is built to that authority, and the assessment names what has to be pleaded or preserved for it to hold up.
Virgin law
Nobody has squarely decided this. Rare, and it changes how the filing is written — to make new law rather than follow it. The assessment says so and the draft is built that way.
Likely loss
The controlling law is against you. We say so plainly, name the case that does it, and give you the strongest filing the law still allows — so you know exactly what you are arguing into.
How do I get a filing started?
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Pick the filing and the court, and give us the date on your order.
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You order it at the catalog price. The engine starts.
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You approve at two decision points. Your written assessment arrives at the second one.
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You receive the finished packet, and you file it.
What does a filing cost?
Every item, every price, on the page — not a consultation to find out what it costs. Items that genuinely cannot be priced in advance are a quote, and a quote is a number, not a sales call. These rows are the pricing cabinet.
Flat rate
The catalog price per filing. You know the number before you start.
Clock
Standard 7 days. Express 3 days. Rush 24 hours when the clock is real.
No retainer
You are not hiring counsel and there is no hourly meter. You remain the filer.
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Common questions
Are you attorneys?
No. Stewart Legal Ops is not a law firm and we are not attorneys or paralegals. We do not represent anyone, we do not give legal advice, and we do not hold consultations. We prepare filings that follow your court's rules and the highest authority available, and you file them.
Can I just use an AI chatbot to write this?
A citation that does not exist is the fastest way to lose a judge, and a general-purpose chatbot has no way to tell you whether the case it just quoted is real, still good law, or about anything like your facts.
Here, a citation exists only as a ledger row carrying a receipt from where it was fetched, and the render is physically blocked if a citation on the page has no row behind it. That is the difference you are buying.
Do you handle every state?
Yes. State and federal, trial and appellate, nationwide. The rules for your specific court and your specific filing type are pulled as rule text for each filing, so a motion in one state is never prepared against another state's rulebook.
Can a law firm use this?
Yes, and firms are a core part of what this is for. The filing is prepared on your caption, to your court's rules, as overflow drafting. Partner and associate time should not be going into covers, tables of authorities and word counts. Volume and custom work are quoted.
Will you look at my case first and tell me if it is worth filing?
That assessment is part of the filing, not something that happens before it. We do not run free case evaluations and we do not hold consultations — that is the model everyone else uses to decide whether you are worth their time.
What you buy is the engine run, and the written assessment of your position under the controlling law is a substantial part of it. You get it with your filing, whatever it says.
What happens after I file?
Every date your filing triggers is calculated and written down for you when the packet is delivered, with the rule each date comes from. What you do with those dates is yours — you are the filer and the case stays in your hands.
Learn the filing before you buy it
Plain explanations of the four filings people search for most, written from the rules and the controlling cases. Free, and long enough to actually answer the question.
What is a Section 1983 lawsuit?
Who you can sue, what you have to plead, the immunities that kill most cases, and how long you have.
/what-is-a-section-1983-lawsuitWhat is post-conviction relief?
The vehicle in every state and in federal court, what it can and cannot reach, and the deadline that ends it.
/what-is-post-conviction-reliefHow do I file a motion in court?
What a motion has to contain, what the clerk will reject it for, and how service actually works.
/how-to-file-a-motionHow do I write an appellate brief?
The required sections in order, the standard of review, and the mistakes that get an appeal dismissed before it is read.
/how-to-write-an-appellate-briefThe same paper. At volume.
Partner time should not go into covers, tables, and word counts. Neither should an agency's.
We prepare the filing for the court on the caption — briefs, petitions, motions, notices, and the record — on the same 15-phase pipeline, with the same citation gate and the same page-by-page render check. Volume and custom work are a quote, not a subscription plan.
We do not enter an appearance. We do not speak for you. You remain the filer.