Integrations

Connecting court e-filing to your app without surprises

July 2, 2026 · 7 min read

State portals, rejection handling and cover-sheet logic: the integration patterns that stay reliable in the field.

The portal is not the hard part

Filing once takes a sprint. Keeping a year of filings flowing from an attorney's phone, through a court portal that changes rules per jurisdiction, into a matter record the firm trusts — that is the engineering.

Patterns that hold

Every e-filing build we ship uses the same skeleton.

  • Local buffering with signed timestamps, so a phone offline for three days loses nothing
  • One canonical filing model, with court quirks normalized at the edge
  • Explicit rejection handling and refile rather than silently failing a submission
  • A filing health screen attorneys can self-serve before they call support

Regulatory footing

Know early which jurisdictions your app files into. E-filing rules, cover sheets and redaction requirements vary by court and shape the roadmap more than any technology choice.