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Template Generator

The AI court template generator that checks the filing, too.

Pick the court and the document, and Aria drafts a court-formatted template built to that court’s stored rules: caption, required sections, table of contents and authorities placeholders, signature block and certificate of service. Then run a rule-based filing readiness check on the draft and download it as Word or PDF.

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How it works

From court to court-formatted draft in five steps.

  1. Pick the courtChoose from 243 federal and state courts. The court’s stored filing rules are shown as you pick it.
  2. Pick the document typeChoose a appellate brief, motion, memorandum of law, complaint, answer or discovery request. In federal courts, optionally pick the exact filing, such as a Rule 12(b) motion to dismiss, then add the case number and parties.
  3. Aria drafts the templateA court-formatted draft in formal legal language, following the court’s rules and the filing’s required parts. Every matter-specific fact, date and argument is left in [BRACKETS]. The draft is saved to your Document Library.
  4. Check filing readinessRun Ready to File on the saved document: a rule-based check against the court’s stored rules that gives a readiness score and lists what passed, what failed and what to review.
  5. Download Word or PDFWord (.docx) with native styles, automatic heading numbers and real TOC / TOA fields, or PDF and HTML. Finish it in Word.

What’s in a template

The parts every filing needs, laid out for the court you chose.

Caption

Court name, parties and case number (or a placeholder until one is assigned), formatted as a court caption.

Required sections

The sections the document type calls for: for a memorandum of law, a preliminary statement, statement of facts, argument and conclusion; for an appellate brief, the jurisdictional statement, issues presented, statement of the case, summary of argument and more.

TOC and TOA

Table of contents and table of authorities placeholders where the document needs them. In the Word download they become real TOC and TOA fields, with citations marked, so Update Field builds them.

Signature block

Placeholders for counsel’s name, bar number, firm, address, email and phone.

Certificate of service

A certificate of service with the date and method of service left in brackets.

“Before you file” checklist

For a specific federal filing: what the national rules require it to include, deadlines, length limits and what to confirm in the local rules, from the federal filing guides.

Firms can also add style models: past filings that show the house style. Aria uses up to two of them as examples of formatting, structure and tone, without copying their content. Beside the draft, filing tips list the court’s stored format and citation rules with the rule they cite; they come from the rules data, not from AI.

Courts covered

243 federal and state courts, with their filing rules stored.

The U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals and the federal district courts (108 federal courts), plus 135 state appellate courts, with 430 filing rules stored across them. Each court has a public page with its rules, sources and an FAQ.

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Document types

Motions, briefs, pleadings and discovery requests.

6 template types cover the core litigation filings:

  • Appellate Brief
  • Motion
  • Memorandum of Law
  • Complaint
  • Answer
  • Discovery Request

In federal courts you can narrow the type to one of 59 specific filings. Its required parts, governing rules and length limits go into Aria’s draft and into the checklist. Read what each one requires:

All federal filing guides

Filing readiness

A court filing compliance check, without sending the draft to AI.

Ready to File checks a saved document against the court’s stored filing rules. The checks are rule-based code, not an AI model, and they are conservative: a check passes only when it can see the requirement met in the document, and anything it can’t measure is flagged for review instead of passed.

The result is a readiness score, a list of checks with what each rule requires and the rule it cites, and a report you can download as Word, PDF or Excel.

  • Word limits, counted on the document’s text
  • Fonts set in the document, compared with those the court’s rules name
  • Citations present (Citation Check reviews their Bluebook form)
  • Case caption, signature block and certificate of service
  • E-filing, service and deadline rules listed for review
  • Page limits and line spacing flagged to check by hand, since the stored text has no page layout

Honest limits

What it doesn’t do.

Rules data not yet verified. The court rules and filing guides come from DraftAria’s court database and have not yet been verified against each court’s official rules. Rules change; confirm the current local rules, standing orders and the judge’s practices before filing.

  • A template is a first draft for attorney review. Aria is instructed not to invent case law, record citations or facts, and to write [CITE AUTHORITY] where authority is needed.
  • Ready to File is not a certification that a filing complies with the rules; it reports what it could check and what you still need to review.
  • Filing-specific requirements are available for federal filings. State-court templates use the court’s stored rules; filing-specific requirements for state courts are being added.
  • Official federal court websites are checked weekly for rule changes; state courts are not watched yet. How the court rules watch works

How it differs

Built around the filing, not just the text.

Court first

You start by choosing the court, so the draft and the checks use that court’s stored rules rather than a generic format.

Drafting and checking together

The same workspace drafts the template, checks it against the rules, runs Citation Check and tracks the deadline.

Word that behaves like Word

Native heading styles, automatic numbering and TOC / TOA fields, so your firm can restyle the document and Word tools can read its structure.

General legal AI assistants and document automation tools each do parts of this well. See fair comparisons with other legal AI tools, or ask Ask Aria for the research and drafting around the filing.

FAQ

Questions about the court template generator

What is an AI court template generator?

A tool that drafts the skeleton of a court filing for a specific court: the caption, the required sections, the signature block and the certificate of service, laid out to that court's formatting rules. In DraftAria you pick the court and the document type, add the case number and parties, and Aria drafts the template, with every matter-specific fact, date and argument left in [BRACKETS] for you to fill in.

Which courts does it support?

243 courts: the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals and district courts (108 federal courts in all) and 135 state appellate courts. Each one has a public page listing the filing rules DraftAria has stored for it.

What kinds of documents can it draft?

6 document types: appellate brief, motion, memorandum of law, complaint, answer and discovery request. For federal courts you can also pick the exact filing, such as a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b) or an appellee's brief, from 59 filings in the federal filing guides; their required parts, governing rules and length limits are added to the draft and to a "Before you file" checklist.

Does it check local rules?

It uses them twice. The court's stored filing rules (format, citation, e-filing, service and deadline rules) go into Aria's instructions for the draft, and its format and citation rules are shown as filing tips beside it. After drafting, the rule-based filing check (Ready to File) compares the saved document with those rules: word limits and fonts where it can measure them, citations present, caption, signature block and certificate of service. What it can't measure, such as page layout, is listed for you to review rather than marked as passing.

Can I edit the template in Word?

Yes. Download it as a Word document (.docx) that uses Word's own built-in styles (Title, Heading 1–6, Body Text), double-spaced for court, with typed heading numbers such as "I." and "A." turned into Word's automatic numbering. Table of contents and table of authorities placeholders become real Word TOC and TOA fields, with citations marked, so Update Field builds them once the brief is final. PDF and HTML downloads are available too.

Does it replace attorney review?

No. The template is a first draft for an attorney to review and complete. Aria is instructed not to invent case law, record citations or facts and to write [CITE AUTHORITY] where authority is needed. The court rules data has not yet been verified against each court's official rules, and the filing check is not a certification that a document complies, so confirm the current rules, standing orders and judge's practices before filing.

Can it follow my firm's house style?

Yes. Firms can save past filings as style models. When you generate a template, Aria uses up to two of your firm's active style models for that document type as examples of formatting, structure and tone, without copying their content; the court's rules win any conflict.

Is there a free version?

The free court filing template generator builds a court-formatted skeleton (caption, section headings, TOC/TOA placeholders, signature block and certificates) as Word or PDF with no account; Aria drafting and the filing readiness check are in the paid plan. The solo and small-firm plan starts with a 14-day free trial with no credit card. DraftAria's free tools also need no account: the citation format checker, the federal deadline calculator and the brief length checker.

Free tools, no account needed: court filing template generator, citation format checker, federal deadline calculator and brief length checker.

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