Working with Drafts

You do not have to complete a filing in one sitting. The system lets you save your progress as a draft and come back to it later.

Saving a Draft

While working in the filing wizard, click Save Draft in the bottom bar at any time. The system saves all of your current selections -- court, case type, parties, documents, and fee preferences.

• The first time you save, a new draft is created and assigned a filing number.
• Subsequent saves update the same draft.
• A toast notification confirms when the draft is saved.

Drafts are saved as filings with a status of DRAFT. They do not appear in your submitted filings list and are not visible to clerks.

📹 GIF: Clicking "Save Draft" in the filing wizard bottom bar, seeing the toast notification confirming the draft was saved, then navigating to the Drafts page in the sidebar.

Finding Your Drafts

You can access your drafts in two ways:

• Drafts page -- Click Drafts in the sidebar. This page lists all your saved drafts, sorted by most recently updated.
• Dashboard stat card -- The Drafts card on the dashboard shows how many drafts you have.

Each draft card shows:

• Filing number
• Whether it is a new case or existing case filing
• Court and case type
• Number of parties and documents added so far
• Last updated date and time

Resuming a Draft

Click the Resume button on any draft card. The system opens the filing wizard with all your saved data pre-loaded. You can continue from where you left off -- editing parties, adding documents, or moving forward to submit.

📹 GIF: On the Drafts page, clicking the "Resume" button on a draft card, the filing wizard opening with pre-filled court, parties, and documents from the saved draft.

Deleting a Draft

If you no longer need a draft, click the trash icon on the draft card. A confirmation dialog will appear because this action cannot be undone.

Deleting a draft permanently removes:

• The draft filing record
• All uploaded documents associated with that draft
• All party information entered for that draft

Deleting a draft is permanent. There is no way to recover a deleted draft.