Court filing for the modern lawyer.

Rhetoric Direct makes court filing dead simple. File by hand or leverage artificial intelligence to prepare the filing for you. Built for lawyers and legal service providers.

Start a filing Open Rhetoric Direct

Rhetoric Direct's agent reading a complaint and its exhibit, then choosing the court, case type and parties. — The Rhetoric agent has read the complaint and its exhibit and is filling in the filing.

Watch a filing come together.

A complaint and its exhibit go in. The agent chooses the court and case type, fills in the parties, asks the questions it needs answered, and stops for your approval before anything is submitted.

Take it for a spin.

Upload your documents, and our AI agent will prepare the filing. Answer any questions that come up, review the filing, and submit it when ready. Create an account if you want to keep track of it.

Humans and agents, in sync.

Fill out the information for a filing yourself using a universal flow that works the same in every court, or hand off to our AI agent to do the heavy lifting. Switch between these modes at any time.

Let the agent fill it in

Upload a complaint, a motion or exhibits. Rhetoric reads them, chooses the court, case type and parties, attaches the documents, and asks when it needs an answer from you.

The Rhetoric Direct agent pausing to ask which service contact should receive e-service for the filing.

Or fill it in yourself

Prefer to do it by hand? Skip the documents and work through the form step by step. The court rules are built in, so you only see what applies to your filing.

Choosing a court by name in the Rhetoric Direct filing form.

Multiple filings, in parallel.

Active filings are shown in the rail beside your work. Start as many as you like and let our AI agents run on each, then move between them when they need input from you. Keep filing one by hand while the others work.

Working. The agent is still on it. Nothing for you to do.
Needs input. The agent has a question, such as which service contact should receive electronic service.
Ready to go. The filing is complete. Check it, then submit.

The drafts list in Rhetoric Direct with four filings: one the agent is still working on, one waiting for an answer, one being filled in by hand, and one ready for review.

Our coverage.

Rhetoric Direct files in Illinois and most of California today. More states are coming soon.

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Transparent pricing.

$20 per filing. You pay when a filing is submitted to the court, and only then. No subscription, no seat fees, no setup cost, and rejected filings are not charged.

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Here to help.

Stuck on a filing, or the court rejected one? We are here Monday to Friday, 6am to 8pm Pacific. Call (805) 908-5005, email support@rhetoric.law, or use the Feedback button in the top right of Rhetoric Direct, which reaches the same inbox from inside your account.