The filing tracker

Watch your filing move, stage by stage

Every matter has its own page in your Legal Ops Depot account. Its Progress card shows the same 15 phases the engine works through, lit as each one finishes, so you can see where your filing stands without asking anyone.

What the tracker shows

  • Every stage, lit as it finishes. Each stage is done, in progress, not started or not needed, and on the row of stages each state has its own mark, not only its own colour.
  • Where the work is now. A line under the stages says which stage is running and how many are done, for example “Stage 10 of 15: Drafting · 9 done”.
  • When it is waiting on a review. The engine stops at its checkpoints for a person to review the work, and the card says so while it waits.
  • All 15 phases by name. Intake, Deadlines, Case file, Record, Vehicle, Research, Second look, Strategy, Blueprint, Drafting, Attack, Verify, Final read, Packet, Filing record.

Show the work: each stage, step by step

Under the row of stages, Show the work opens the stage that is running. It gives a short, plain summary of the stage and the steps listed for it, each marked by where it stands, with the current step labeled. Use the arrows, or the full list of stages, to read any other stage the same way. The engine has 94 defined steps; Drafting also lists one line for each required part of the paper once it starts.

The Progress card for a fictional matter: stages 1 to 7 done, stage 8, Strategy, in progress, stages 9 to 15 not started. Below it, Show the work at Stage 8 of 15, Strategy: a short summary of the stage, 4 of 10 steps done, steps 8a to 8d marked done, step 8e labeled Current step, and the next steps not started.
The Progress card with Show the work open at the Strategy stage. The matter is fictional.

Read your filing packet

The papers delivered on your matter are listed in packet order, each labeled as a review packet or the paper to file. Read a PDF or text paper on the page, or download any paper. A scanned exhibit may show as a blank page in the reader for now; download the file to see it.

Beside the papers is the court’s filing checklist: the rules the paper is checked against, from the official rules on file, grouped as governing rules, parts and contents, format and length, and deadlines. Each listed rule opens in the law library with its source. Local rules are not loaded and are never applied here: read them on the court’s own website.

The Filing packet card: two papers in packet order, a review packet and the paper to file, each with Read and Download buttons, and below them the start of the court's filing checklist.
The filing packet and the start of the court's filing checklist, for a fictional federal matter.

Your deadlines, in your own calendar

Each matter page lists the open, dated deadlines on the matter, with the days left and a button to add one to your calendar. Your deadlines page gathers them all, and there you can make one private link that iPhone, Google Calendar and Outlook subscribe to: new deadlines appear when your calendar next refreshes, with reminders a week and a day before. The link is shown once, so keep it private. The link holds only the deadlines on your own matters. The dates are the ones recorded on your matter, so always check them against the court’s order and rules.

The Deadlines card for a fictional matter: two dates with the days left and an Add to calendar button each, a link to all deadlines and the calendar link, and the note to check dates against the court's order and rules.
Deadlines on a matter page. The dates are fictional.

Check a draft’s citations

Paste a draft or open a text file. The page first counts the reporter citations, then the check, which uses one of the day’s library lookups, looks up each one, up to 60 per check, in the law library: whether the case is there, whether the name written before it matches, and any red or yellow treatment flag. A citation that is not found is not proof the case does not exist, and a found case with no flag still needs reading before you rely on it. It is a library lookup, not legal advice.

The citation check: a pasted draft with three citations, two found in the library with matching names, and one marked Not found with the note that this does not prove the case does not exist.
A citation check: two citations found in the library, and one made up for the example.

Your matters, and only yours

A client account sees its own matters and never another client’s. What the court has done is recorded from the court’s docket, which is the record.

Bring your own AI to the matter

Add the Legal Ops Depot connector to Claude, Grok or another AI app that supports custom connectors, and it can read your matters and the files shared with your account. It can only read: it cannot change, file or delete anything. How to add the connector.

Get the tracker

Every filing you order gets its own tracker in your free account. Create a free account, or see how the engine builds a filing, stage by stage.