US Motion Drafter

Best for: a first-pass draft of a federal civil motion, with the proposed order, supporting documents, and a compliance checklist surfacing local-rule and citation-verification gaps before you file. Covers 12(b)(6), 12(b)(1), 12(b)(2), summary judgment, motion to compel, and motion in limine.


Category	Litigation
Jurisdiction	US federal
Practice areas	Litigation, civil, commercial, employment, IP litigation, products liability
Runtime	4-20 minutes

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What you need

Slot	Required	Count	What goes in it
Supporting record	No	0-500	The complaint (required in practice for 12(b) motions), depositions, declarations, expert reports, and anything else the drafter should cite.

Each supporting document is capped at 6 KB of extracted text in the model context. Upload the documents that matter rather than the whole file, and put the load-bearing facts into the Matter facts field.

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	What it changes
Matter / case	Text	No	Document title and DOCX file names.
Motion type	Select	Yes	Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, 12(b)(6) · for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, 12(b)(1) · for lack of personal jurisdiction, 12(b)(2) · Motion for summary judgment (Rule 56) · Motion to compel (Rule 37) · Motion in limine. Determines which supporting artifacts are generated.
Court / local-rule profile	Select	Yes	S.D.N.Y. · N.D. Cal. · D.D.C. · Default (other federal district). Drives length caps, whether a 56.1 statement is required, meet-and-confer rules, and proposed-order format. Pick the default profile for a district not in the list.
Case caption	Long text	No	Pasted-in caption. The title block is formatted from this. Optional if the supporting documents contain the caption.
Court (free-text label)	Text	No	Court name and judge as you would write it in the caption. Fallback when the caption field is empty.
Assigned judge	Text	No	When provided, individual-practice considerations are mentioned where relevant.
Party moving	Text	Yes	Drops into the caption, the signature block, and the proposed order.
Matter facts	Long text	Yes	Two to five sentences. Only facts stated here or in the supporting documents will appear in the motion.
Relief sought	Long text	Yes	Be specific about which counts, exhibits, or requests. The proposed-order clauses are built from this.

How it runs

Draft

Generates the motion and memorandum against the selected motion type and local-rule profile, grounded in your matter facts and the supporting record.

Render motion artifacts

Writes the filing documents plus the internal compliance checklist and the citations appendix. Which supporting documents appear depends on the motion type.

What you get

Artifact	Format	When	Contents
Motion + Memorandum	DOCX	Always	Combined motion and memorandum of points and authorities, per federal practice, compliant with the selected local-rule profile.
Proposed Order	DOCX	Always	Separate proposed order suitable for filing alongside the motion.
Rule 56.1 Statement	DOCX	MSJ only	Separately numbered statement of material undisputed facts with record citations.
Compliance Checklist	DOCX	Always	Word count against the local-rule cap, Rule 56.1 and 37(a)(1) completeness, citation-verification status. Attorney-only. Do not file.
Citations and Authorities Used	DOCX	Always	Deduplicated appendix of every authority cited.

What this will not do

File the motion with the court or serve it on opposing counsel.
Replace partner review of citations. The workflow does not independently verify cases against Westlaw, Lexis, or CourtListener at insert time. The appendix is a checklist, not proof.
Account for judge-specific individual practices not captured by the local-rule profile, such as SDNY chambers rules or NDCA standing orders.
Negotiate the meet-and-confer for a motion to compel. It drafts the certification language; you must actually meet and confer first.
Generate exhibits or declarations. Those are separate documents.

Citations

How Vaquill handles citation verification, and where the gaps are.

Discovery Response Pack

For the discovery dispute that a motion to compel follows.

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