No unsigned affidavit reaches the filing deadline
A litigation team assembling filings from client papers, expert reports and exhibits, under deadlines that do not move.
The situation
A litigation team assembling court filings from client papers, expert reports and exhibits. The deadline is set by the court and does not move, which makes every late-discovered defect expensive.
Associates checked signatures and exhibit numbering by hand, usually late at night. An unsigned affidavit was sometimes found by the court rather than by the firm, and exhibit references in the brief drifted apart from the bundle itself.
The rule Ceertia applies
Every affidavit in the filing must be signed and dated, and its execution date must precede the filing date.
How it runs
The case arrives from whoever sends it, with the affidavits, exhibits, court filings, engagement letters, powers of attorney and expert reports. Anything missing is flagged on receipt.
Each rule returns a verdict with its evidence: what Ceertia saw, where, and why it concluded. Every verdict is stored with its rule version, source excerpt and timestamp. A use case per filing type, declaring what the court requires and the checks to run across it: signature presence, execution dates against the filing date, and exhibit numbering against every reference in the brief.
Your team keeps the decision, on sourced evidence, with a full audit log.
What changes in the work
- Associates checked signatures and exhibit numbering by hand, late at night.
- An unsigned affidavit was found by the court, not by the firm.
- Exhibit references in the brief and the exhibit bundle drifted apart.
- Every affidavit is checked for signature and date on receipt.
- Exhibit numbering is reconciled against every reference in the filing.
- The bundle is verified before the deadline, not on it.
Your team keeps the decision, on sourced evidence, with a full audit log.
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