Submit Court & Authority Form Automation Request

Court and Authority Automation Overview

Smokeball's Legal Configuration Team can help you automate Court & Authority Forms in addition to documents. As with documents, we rely on your familiarity with the form(s) you submit to ensure the automated form remains useful and up-to-date. Smokeball currently hosts more than 20,000 templates, and the Legal Configuration Team relies upon your input to know when a specific court & authority form in your jurisdiction is updated. 

You should also keep the following parameters in mind when submitting a Court & Authority Form automation request:

1. Smokeball does not draft, publish, or edit Court & Authority Forms, as any changes the Legal Configuration Team makes to a form would risk it being rejected by the court upon filing. The Legal Configuration Team also will not correct typos or mistakes in these forms. The Legal Configuration Team will not alter these forms beyond adding automation capabilities or arithmetic functions (if appropriate).
2. The Legal Configuration Team will only add forms which are publicly available. Note: Any forms which are behind a paywall or require a subscription cannot be added to the Smokeball library for all other firms to access; however, it can be added to your personal Forms & Template Library upon request. 
3. Forms which are made available as a PDF will be added to the Smokeball Forms & Templates Library as a PDF; likewise forms in the Microsoft Word format will be added as Word files.
4. If a form is useful to more than one matter type, our legal configuration team will account for this when automating it if it is possible to do so.
5. All Smokeball users subscribed to the same form suite can access and use the suite's templates. This means that forms in the Court & Authority section of the Forms & Templates Library cannot be customized. 
6. Smokeball may already have the form you are seeking. Before you submit a request, search the library by entering:
   • The exact form number
   • The exact form name

If you are unable to find the form you are seeking, include the following information when submitting your request:

1. Link to the form authority site or sites
2. Form name(s) and number(s)
3. A list of the forms, in groups of 10, ordered by their importance to you. 
   • You can request as many Court & Authority forms as you need, but we will only add them in batches of 10 at a time and on a rolling basis.
4. The matter types the forms can be used in. 

Submit Court & Authority Automation Request

1. While in your matter select the Forms & Templates button.
2. Select Request a form.
3. Fill in all the fields (Form Name, Form Number, Form Provider, Link to Form, Matter Type(s), and any additional notes.
4. Select Send.