Legal Disclaimer

1. No legal advice

Nothing produced by DocketPDF™, published on this website, contained in a jurisdiction preset, shown by the compliance check, listed in the court forms library, or written in support correspondence constitutes legal advice or a legal opinion. It is general information about document format and mechanics. It is not tailored to your matter, your court, your judge or your facts, and it cannot be relied on as a substitute for advice.

2. No attorney-client relationship

Using the software, buying a subscription, reading this site or corresponding with us creates no attorney-client relationship and no duty of care of a professional character. Information you send us is not protected by legal professional privilege and should not be treated as confidential in that sense. Please do not send us privileged or confidential material — we do not want it and cannot protect it.

3. Jurisdiction presets are a convenience

A preset is our reading of a court’s published electronic filing or bundling requirements at the time it was written. It may be incomplete. It may be out of date, because courts amend rules and do not tell us. It does not include local rules, standing orders, chteals preferences, practice directions issued after it was written, or requirements imposed by an e-filing service provider rather than the court itself. Two courts described by the same preset may differ in practice.

Verify the current requirements of your court before you file. The compliance check tells you whether your bundle matches the preset. It cannot tell you whether the preset matches the rule.

4. The forms library links; it does not certify

The library helps you locate a form by number, title or description, and provides a Check link to the issuing court’s own page for it. It does not certify that a form is current, that it is the correct form for your situation, that it is mandatory rather than optional, or that a local variant is not required instead. Courts revise and withdraw forms without notice. The verification date shown in the app is the date the collection was last checked, not a guarantee about today. Always confirm at the source.

5. Text recognition is imperfect

OCR output is machine-generated and will contain errors, particularly on low-resolution scans, skewed pages, faint copies, unusual typefaces, tables and handwriting. Do not rely on an OCR text layer for accurate quotation, citation, redaction targeting or privilege review without reading the underlying page. A word the recognition engine missed is a word your text search will not find.

6. Redaction — read this one twice

A redaction box drawn in DocketPDF™ and exported with Keep layers is burned into the page as an image patch so it cannot be dragged off — but the original words remain inside the file and can be recovered. Only a Flatten export destroys them.

If a redaction must be genuine, flatten the export and then verify it yourself: open the exported file, try to select the text, and search for a word you redacted. Redaction failures are among the most damaging mistakes in litigation, and no software vendor — us included — should be the last line of defence against one. Verification is your responsibility.

7. Signatures

DocketPDF™ places an image of a signature on a page. It is not a digital signature, not a cryptographic certificate, and carries no identity assurance, timestamp authority or tamper-evidence. Whether a court, registry or counterparty accepts an image signature, and whether an electronic signature is legally effective for your document, are questions of law for your jurisdiction. Applying anyone’s signature without their authority may be a criminal offence.

8. Deadlines and filing

DocketPDF™ does not file anything, does not connect to any court system, does not calculate deadlines and does not remind you of them. Producing a compliant PDF is not the same as filing it on time. Leave yourself room; software fails, uploads fail, and portals go down at inconvenient hours.

9. Not a records system

DocketPDF™ stores no documents. It is not a backup, an archive, a document management system or a system of record. Keep your own copies, in your own storage, under your own retention policy.

10. Territorial scope

Presets and form collections cover jurisdictions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Coverage of a jurisdiction is not a representation that we understand its procedure, and the absence of one is not a representation that the software will not work there.

11. Limitation

Your use of DocketPDF™ is at your own risk, and our liability is limited as set out in the Terms of Service. In particular, we are not liable for rejected filings, missed deadlines, sanctions, adverse costs, inadvertent disclosure or any outcome in any proceeding.

If a preset, a form entry or anything else on this site is wrong, please tell us with the rule or citation. Corrections are the most valuable mail we receive.