Cross-practice legal support

Lawyer-led

Pleadings and motion first drafts

The first draft takes the most time and carries the least judgement, and partners rewrite it regardless. We produce the structured first draft with the record already cited, so the expensive work starts from a document rather than a blank page.

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Published price
$300–800 / draft
Turnaround
3 to 5 days
Without us
$800–2,400 / draft

Fixed per unit, not hourly. No minimum engagement. Quoted before we start.

Lawyer-led

How we actually produce this

A lawyer's judgement runs through the middle of the work. The pipeline accelerates the reading, searching and assembly around it rather than producing the answer.

The pipeline is ours. It was built for legal work rather than adapted from a general product, which is why the price for this service is a published number instead of an hourly estimate.

Why this work leaves a firm
The first draft consumes the most time and contains the least judgment. Partners rewrite them regardless.
What our pipeline does
We work from your template and your record. We assemble the factual section with record citations, structure the argument against the authority you identify, and produce a complete first draft in your house format. We do not select the argument.
Where a lawyer steps in
Argument, strategy, and every substantive choice. This service exists to remove typing, not thinking.
What it changes
Partners start from a structured draft with cited facts rather than a blank document, which is where most of the hours go.

What you receive

A structured first draft with record citations throughout and every citation verified before it reaches you.

Priced per draft, with the range set by complexity and record volume. Dispositive motions with heavy briefing are quoted individually, and the legal research behind a novel argument is priced separately as a research memo.

  • A structured first draft in your jurisdiction's required form, with headings and sections in the expected order
  • Record citations throughout, bound to the document and page as the draft is written
  • A list of factual assertions we could not support from the record you gave us
  • Every legal citation verified against its source and formatted to your citation standard
  • A statement of facts drawn from the record rather than from the complaint's characterisation of it
  • Drafting notes flagging the places where a judgement call is needed from you

What it costs, and what it replaces

Both figures are published ranges for the same unit of work. Ours is fixed before we start; if our process gets faster, that is our gain and your price does not move.

How engagements are structured →
Price per draft · same work, both sides
Adnah Legal
$300–800 / draft
Typical cost without us
$800–2,400 / draft

Roughly 66% lower at the midpoint of each published range.

How the work runs

  1. 01

    Scope the draft

    We agree the arguments to be run, the structure, and the local rules that govern form before drafting. What we are not being asked to argue is as useful to know as what we are.

  2. 02

    Build the cited factual spine

    The pipeline extracts the supporting facts from the record with their citations bound, so the statement of facts is assembled from the record itself rather than from someone's memory of it.

  3. 03

    Draft and verify

    A qualified lawyer drafts the argument around that spine. Every legal citation is then verified against its source, and every factual assertion is checked back to the record - anything that cannot be supported goes on a list rather than into the draft.

  4. 04

    Review, flag and deliver

    A second read flags the judgement calls for you rather than making them, and the draft is delivered with its unsupported-assertion list attached.

What we need from you

  • The record or the relevant part of it, plus any prior pleadings in the matter
  • The relief you are seeking and the arguments you want run
  • Local rules or standing orders that govern form, length and structure
  • The filing deadline

What we check before delivery

  • No factual assertion reaches the draft without a record citation or a place on the unsupported list
  • Every legal citation is verified against the source and for current good standing
  • Local rules on form, length and structure are checked before delivery, not after a clerk rejects it
  • The draft is explicitly a first draft for your revision and signature - we do not file and we do not sign

When firms send us this

  • Routine motions that consume associate time out of proportion to their difficulty
  • A filing deadline that arrived while the team was on something else
  • Standard-form pleadings at volume, where consistency matters more than invention
  • Getting a stalled draft to a state where the partner can actually work on it

Questions about pleadings and motion first drafts

  • Who signs the filing?

    You do. We do not sign, file, or appear, and nothing we produce is a legal determination. The draft is a work product for your review, revision and adoption.

  • How do you handle facts the record does not support?

    They do not go in the draft. They go on a separate list, with a note on what would be needed to support them. A draft that quietly asserts what the record cannot carry is worse than one with a gap in it.

  • Can you work to our house style?

    Yes. Send a filing you were happy with and we hold the structure, citation conventions and tone for subsequent drafts.

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Pleadings and motion first drafts at $300–800 per draft, 3 to 5 days. No minimum, no scoping call, no onboarding cycle.

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