legal filing
Submitted legal paperwork
A legal filing is a document formally submitted to a court or government agency, becoming part of an official record.
The term covers complaints, motions, briefs, and other paperwork that initiates or advances legal proceedings: The attorney prepared the filing before the deadline.
Filing also refers to the act of submission itself: Electronic filing has replaced paper in most courts.
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
- class actionLawsuit filed for many
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- documentWritten or electronic file
- petitionFormal written appeal
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- paperworkinvoice, permit, documents, license, files
- courtroomjudge, jury, oath taking, lawyer, bench
- legal termstrial, appeal, lawsuit, law, verdict
- prosecutionprosecutor, district attorney, DA, prosecution, public prosecutors
- POA terminationrevocation, expiration, cancellation, expiry, lapse
legal filingoral argument
Spoken case presentation
verbal testimony · courtroom testimony · opening statement · closing argument · sidebar
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