Build a Table of Authorities in seconds.

Paste a brief or upload the PDF. Authority finds every citation, resolves id. and supra, then dedupes, categorizes, and alphabetizes it into a court-ready Table of Authorities. It never leaves your computer.

● No account. No upload. No server. Your confidential draft stays on your machine.

The tedious part, done in one paste

A Table of Authorities is 3 to 6 hours of hunting down every cite, collapsing short forms, and alphabetizing by hand — or a $300/month subscription. Authority does the grunt work locally, in seconds, for free.

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Build the TOA

Paste a brief and get a categorized, deduped, alphabetized table: Cases, Constitutional Provisions, Statutes, Regulations, Rules, and Other Authorities.

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Resolve id. & supra

Every short-form, id., and supra reference collapses back to the full cite, so each authority appears once.

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Audit your cites

A citation report tells you how many distinct authorities you have, a breakdown by section, and your most-cited cases — a fast sanity check before filing.

Pro: real page numbers, from your PDF

Upload your filed brief and Authority fills in the pages each authority is cited on — the part Word makes painful — 100% on your device.

  • ✓ Real brief page numbers, with automatic “passim”
  • ✓ Court-ready dot-leader page columns
  • ✓ Word-paste-ready RTF export
  • ✓ One-time purchase — no subscription
$22
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How it works

Everything runs in your browser. No document you touch is ever uploaded.

Paste or upload

Drop in your brief as text, or upload the filed PDF for the Pro page-numbered version.

Authority parses locally

An open-source citation engine runs on-device to find and resolve every cite. No AI service, no cloud.

Copy the table

Review, copy, or export a Word-paste-ready Table of Authorities. You verify and file.

CASES Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) ········· passim United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974) ············ 3, 9 STATUTES 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ···································· 4, 11 RULES Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) ······················· 2

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Building a Table of Authorities from pasted text, listing all citations, and the citation report are free forever. Pro ($22 one-time) adds real page numbers from an uploaded PDF, dot-leader formatting, and Word-paste-ready export.

Does my brief get uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything happens in your browser, on your machine. Nothing you paste or upload is transmitted to any server. The only network request the tool can make is verifying a Pro license key with Gumroad, and only if you choose to enter one.

How is this different from Clearbrief, TypeLaw, or Best Authority?

Those are subscriptions ($300/month), per-brief services ($1,895/brief), or enterprise Word add-ins, and they process your draft in the cloud. Authority is a one-time $22 purchase that runs entirely on your device.

Does it check whether a case is still good law?

No. Authority is a drafting aid — it finds, dedupes, and formats citations. It does not validate citations against Westlaw or Lexis. Always review the table before filing.

Will it work on a scanned PDF?

Best results come from text-based PDFs. Scanned (image) PDFs have no selectable text; run OCR first. The Pro tool detects this and tells you.