You send the court and the case. Served 123 LLC deals with the clerk — dockets, pleadings, orders, judgments, transcripts and certified copies, pulled from local, state and federal courts and returned as a searchable PDF checked against the docket.
Two components, kept on separate lines. One is ours and quoted up front; the other belongs to the clerk and is reconciled against what the court actually charged.
Covers working that court's own retrieval procedure and returning the file checked against the docket.
Across local, state and federal courts including PACER. Quoted in writing at intake — current starting figures are on the pricing page.
These belong to the clerk, not to us. They run through a court copy costs retainer set with your quote for your specific request.
Nothing is pulled until you approve. Afterwards it is reconciled against the actual charges — under, and the difference is refunded; over, and you are billed the difference.
Send the court, the case information, and the document you need. Online intake is open at any hour.
Your instructions, worked as given.
You send the court and the case. We deal with the clerk.
Dockets, pleadings, orders, judgments, transcripts and certified copies, pulled from local, state and federal courts and returned as a searchable PDF checked against the docket — regular or clerk-certified, whichever the next step actually needs.
All 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico — local and county courts, state trial and appellate courts, and the federal system.
The procedure is specific to each clerk's office, so it's confirmed for your court at intake rather than assumed. Small rural and specialty courts can have limited hours or restricted public access; where that affects your request you're told at quote, not afterwards.
It depends on the record:
A regular copy is a reproduction of the filing.
A certified copy bears the clerk's seal and certification language attesting that it is a true and complete reproduction of the document on file. Wet-signature originals are mailed where required.
Tell us what the document is for. Filing, evidence, recording, or use in another state each carry different requirements — and that is what decides the form of certification, rather than picking off a fixed menu.
Orders and judgments in particular are certified under the clerk's seal when the downstream use requires it, so say up front whether you need it for filing, for recording, or for out-of-state recognition.
No. PACER returns the docket or the filing, but it cannot issue certified copies — those are coordinated through the clerk's office directly.
Worth knowing before you plan around it. For federal work, send the district and case number, or the party name and district; bankruptcy also takes the chapter if you know it.
Tell us at intake that the record is going abroad. Certification for foreign use is a different requirement from certification for filing, and getting that wrong means retrieving the document twice.
Apostille and authentication is a separate service that can pick the document up once it's retrieved.
Sealed and restricted records require court authorization separate from our retrieval work.
If you hold an order unsealing a document, or you qualify as an authorized requestor, we can retrieve under that authority — send the order with your request.
No. Some courts restrict particular record types, keep older files off-site, or release certain documents only to a party or their counsel.
That's checked against the specific court at intake, and you're told before you commit rather than after — which is the whole point of checking first.
You're told what was requested and what the court returned.
Court copy charges are a separate matter. The retainer is only ever drawn down against charges the court actually raised, so a pull that returns nothing draws nothing against it.
Two components.
The retainer sits on its own line, apart from the service fee, so you can see which number belongs to whom. Current starting figures are on the pricing page.
It's set with your quote for your specific request, before anything is drawn against it. Nothing is pulled until you approve.
Once the work is done it's reconciled against the actual clerk charges:
Clerk charges vary by court, document type and certification level, which is exactly why they're handled this way rather than guessed at in advance.
It depends on the court, the document, and how that clerk's office actually operates. Some publish dockets to public terminals only. Some require in-person inspection of the physical file. Some take email requests. Some want fee tender by mail.
By that court's own process — a runner, in-person inspection of the physical file, or the e-filing portal, whichever that clerk actually uses.
Older matters and courts that keep files off-site get worked the way those courts require, rather than through one assumed method that happens to suit us.
A searchable PDF, checked against the docket — certified under seal where you asked for it. Wet-signature originals are mailed where required.
Pleadings come with the exhibits and attachments filed with them, checked against the docket entry so you can see nothing is missing. That check is the part that matters; an e-filed copy that quietly dropped its exhibits looks complete until it isn't.
Yes — through the court's own reporter process. Send the case number and the hearing date; the judge or courtroom helps when several matters were heard the same day.
The reporter's fee is confirmed before the order is placed, because transcript pricing is set by the reporter rather than the clerk.
Send the court, the case information, and the document you need:
Submit what you have and the rest gets confirmed. A written quote comes back covering scope, the court copy costs retainer and turnaround, and nothing is pulled until you approve it.
Your instructions, worked through that court's own process, and returned checked against the docket.
