Get it filed, and get the stamp back. Served 123 LLC handles e-filing and paper filing in local, state and federal courts across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico — format checked against that court's own rules before it goes in, fee tendered, conformed copy back to you.
Plenty of clerks will not take a card and will not take a personal cheque. It's a cashier's cheque made out to that court, or exact cash — which means whoever walks up to the window has to arrive holding the right instrument for the right figure. There is no rounding up and no change.
That figure depends on your filing type, your page count, the number of parties, and that court's own schedule. You are the one who knows what you're filing, so you confirm the amount with the court and put it on the order. Guessing it turns into a wasted trip to the courthouse and a filing that didn't go in.
Once we have the figure, the money runs through a fee retainer: set with your quote, drawn down against what the clerk actually charges, and reconciled after — refunded if it comes in under, billed if it runs over.
Upload the documents, name the court, pick a rate of service, and put the filing fee amount in the fee field.
The line between the filing and the lawyering.
It gets your documents in and gets the stamp back.
E-filing and paper filing in local, state and federal courts across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. The format is checked against that court's own rules before it goes in, the fee is tendered, and the conformed copy comes back to you.
Because it's the one thing we can't work out for you.
Plenty of clerks will not take a card and will not take a personal cheque. It's a cashier's cheque made out to that court, or exact cash — so whoever walks up to the window has to arrive holding the right instrument for the right figure. There's no rounding up and no change.
The figure depends on your filing type, your page count, the number of parties, and that court's own schedule. You're the one who knows what you're filing.
The money runs through a fee retainer: set with your quote, drawn down against what the clerk actually charges, and reconciled after — refunded if it comes in under, billed if it runs over.
The correct instrument is prepared in the court's name. Nothing is charged until you approve the quote.
Two components.
Current starting figures are on the pricing page.
Local, state and federal courts across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico, through whichever channel that clerk actually uses:
You don't need your own portal account. That's the usual route for counsel filing outside their home state.
Yes — District, Bankruptcy and Circuit Courts of Appeals through PACER and CM/ECF.
Federal filings carry their own format requirements on top of each district's local rules, and both get applied before submission. That stacking is where out-of-district filings usually come unstuck.
A runner goes to the clerk's window with the fee instrument in hand, and the file-stamped copies are retrieved and scanned back to you. Originals are returned where the court doesn't keep them.
Send wet-signature originals where the court requires them, and tell us if anything must be filed under seal or lodged rather than filed.
Caption style, page numbering, signature blocks, exhibit bookmarking and local-rule requirements — checked against that court before the clerk sees it, not after.
Most rejections are one of those, and all of them are visible before submission if somebody actually looks. Anything that looks wrong comes back to you first.
If your court has a standing order or a judge's preferred form, send it and it gets applied.
Once the clerk accepts, you get file-stamped (conformed) copies and written confirmation.
For e-filings you get the submission receipt first, then the electronic file-stamp once the clerk accepts — two different things, and worth not confusing when a deadline is close.
Where a court keeps the originals you'll have the conformed set; where it returns them, they're mailed back to you.
You pick a rate of service on the order form, and the rate you choose is the rate quoted back to you.
| Rate | What it is | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Immediate | Subject to the court's filing window and intake timing | Same day |
| Express | For a deadline already close | Within 48 hrs |
| Preferred | Accelerated dispatch | 1–3 business days |
| Routine | Standard dispatch | 3–5 business days |
No. Acceptance is the court's call and its timing is the court's to set. A portal outage, a queue, or a technical rejection all sit outside anyone's control but the clerk's.
Technical rejections are routine, not exceptional. Filings get rejected over formatting far more than over substance.
You get the rejection reason in plain terms, the correction, and a refile — included in the assignment, not billed as a new one.
We move as fast as the correction allows.
No — and we won't suggest otherwise.
A late filing is late whoever hands it over. Whether it's accepted, stricken, or needs a motion for leave is between you and the court. We can submit it and return whatever the clerk gives us.
A rejection caught and refiled the same day usually doesn't cost you a deadline — but the date belongs to the court, not to us.
Back comes confirmation of which channel that court uses — e-file portal, PACER, or a physical counter — and a written quote before anything is submitted.
Yes. A complaint can be filed and the summons and complaint then served on each defendant, with the filing confirmation and the affidavits of service both returned.
Say so at intake so the service order is set up alongside the filing rather than bolted on after it.
Upload the documents, name the court, pick a rate of service, and put the filing fee amount in the fee field.
Online intake is open at any hour, upload is encrypted, and no account is needed. Nothing is charged until you approve the quote.
Filings get rejected over formatting, not over the argument. Four things on every assignment, so it goes in clean the first time.
