Terms of Service

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Last updated: 2026-05-15

1. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Docket ("Docket", "we", "us", or "our"), a software-as-a-service platform operated at docket-legal.com, app.docket-legal.com, and api.docket-legal.com (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is operated by Dizik | Kaplan, Attorneys at Law, or the legal entity that succeeds it as the Service's operator (the "Operator").

By signing up for an account, accessing the Service, or clicking a button labeled "I agree" or similar, you accept these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a law firm or other entity (collectively, "Customer"), you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" in these Terms refers to both you and that entity.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

These Terms incorporate our Privacy Policy at docket-legal.com/privacy, which is part of these Terms.

2. The Service

Docket is a workflow automation tool for Michigan litigation attorneys. The Service:

Receives notifications of e-filings from MiFile (mifile.courts.michigan.gov) and TrueFiling, either by inbound mail forwarded from your Gmail account or by polling your Microsoft 365 mailbox via the permissions you grant.
Downloads the file-stamped PDFs of those filings from Tyler Technologies' MiFile and TrueCertify systems.
Uploads each PDF to a folder you designate in your own Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive account.
Sends you a daily end-of-day summary email and a weekly Monday morning summary email listing what was filed.

Docket does not communicate with your clients. Docket does not parse the substance of any filing. Docket does not provide legal advice. Docket is a tool used by you, the attorney, and you remain solely responsible for monitoring your court deadlines, reviewing your filings, and complying with all professional responsibility obligations.

We may add, change, or remove features of the Service from time to time. We will give you reasonable notice of any change that materially reduces the Service's functionality. We do not commit to making the Service available indefinitely; see section 9 on termination.

3. Account registration

To use the Service, you must create an account through our authentication provider, Clerk. You must provide accurate and current information when creating an account, and you must keep that information up to date.

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials. You agree to notify us promptly at support@docket-legal.com if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract. You must be an attorney licensed in Michigan or an authorized agent of a Michigan-licensed attorney. The Service is intended for professional use by lawyers and law firms; it is not intended for personal or consumer use.

4. Subscription, billing, and payment

4.1 Fees

The Service is offered on a subscription basis. As of the date of these Terms, the fees are:

A one-time setup fee of $1,000 payable at signup. The setup fee covers the work of provisioning your account, connecting your Drive or OneDrive, configuring forwarding or mailbox polling, and a one-on-one onboarding call.
A recurring subscription fee of $299 per month, billed in advance on the same calendar day each month as your first paid signup.

Fees are stated in United States dollars and are exclusive of any taxes, which are your responsibility unless we are required by law to collect them.

We may change the fees from time to time. Any change will not apply to your current paid subscription period. We will give you at least 30 days advance notice of any fee change before it takes effect in your next billing period.

4.2 Payment processor

Payments are processed by Stripe (stripe.com). By providing payment information, you authorize us to charge the payment method you provide on the cadence described above. Stripe's terms govern your use of Stripe's payment services.

4.3 Refund policy

You may request a full refund of the setup fee and any subscription fees paid within the first 30 days of your first paid period for any reason, by emailing billing@docket-legal.com. After 30 days, fees are non-refundable except where required by law.

4.4 Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the Docket portal or by emailing billing@docket-legal.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid billing period; you continue to have access to the Service through that date. We do not pro-rate cancellations mid-period.

4.5 Failed payments

If a payment fails, we will attempt to charge the payment method again and notify you by email. If the payment continues to fail for 14 consecutive days, we may suspend or terminate your account. Reactivation requires payment of the outstanding balance.

5. Your responsibilities

You agree to:

Use the Service only for lawful purposes and in connection with your law practice.
Provide accurate information to the Service, including your firm name, attorney email, and MiFile credentials if you choose to enter them.
Keep your OAuth grants and MiFile credentials current. If you revoke them or change your MiFile password without updating Docket, the Service will stop working for your account and we are not responsible for missed filings.
Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and rules of professional conduct, including Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct, Tyler Technologies' terms governing MiFile and TrueFiling, and the terms of your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 agreement.
Maintain your own backup of any document Docket places in your Drive or OneDrive. Although the Service is designed to deliver each filing once and only once, you remain responsible for redundant backup of materials you would consider critical.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Resell, redistribute, or sublicense the Service, or use the Service to operate a competing business.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits.
Use the Service to violate any law or any third party's rights, including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights.
Use the Service to send spam, phishing messages, or any communication that the recipient has not consented to receive.
Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Service or its infrastructure (responsible disclosure is welcome at security@docket-legal.com).
Use the Service in a way that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Service, including by uploading malicious code, attempting denial-of-service attacks, or exceeding documented rate limits.
Use the Service to monitor, copy, or otherwise process information about cases or parties you do not represent.

We may suspend or terminate your account for any violation of this section, with or without notice depending on severity.

7. Service availability

We make commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Service available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We do not commit to any specific uptime in V1. We will publish service status information at a status page once one is established.

The Service is hosted on Railway and depends on third-party services we do not control (Clerk, Postmark, Resend, Google, Microsoft, Tyler Technologies, Stripe). Outages or disruptions at any of these third-party services may affect the Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to work around third-party outages but accept no liability for downtime caused by them.

Scheduled maintenance, when needed, will be announced in advance via email to all active customers. We aim to perform maintenance outside of business hours in Eastern Time.

A service-level agreement with quantitative uptime targets (such as 99.9% monthly availability) is contemplated for a future major version of these Terms and is not part of V1.

8. Intellectual property

8.1 Docket's property

The Service, including its source code, design, copy, logos, and branding, is owned by the Operator and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own law practice during your paid subscription period. This license does not transfer any ownership interest in the Service to you.

You may not use Docket's name, logo, or branding in any public-facing materials without our prior written consent, except to identify Docket as the tool you use (e.g., "I use Docket to capture my e-filings" is fine).

8.2 Your property

You own all documents that flow through the Service. The PDFs Docket places in your Drive or OneDrive belong to you (and, where applicable, to your clients per your separate engagement agreements with them). Docket does not claim any ownership interest in your filings, your client data, or your firm's data.

You grant Docket a limited license to access your information and the documents in your designated Drive/OneDrive folder only as necessary to operate the Service for your benefit. This license terminates when you delete your account or revoke Docket's OAuth grants, except that we may retain the metadata described in our Privacy Policy for the retention periods stated there.

8.3 Feedback

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use that feedback to improve the Service. You are not required to provide feedback.

9. Termination

9.1 Termination by you

You may terminate your account at any time as described in section 4.4. Termination ends our future obligations to provide the Service to you, and we will delete your account information per our Privacy Policy.

9.2 Termination by us

We may terminate or suspend your account, with at least 30 days notice in the case of non-cause termination, if:

You materially breach these Terms and (where the breach is curable) fail to cure within 14 days of our notice describing the breach.
We discontinue the Service. We will give all customers at least 90 days notice and a pro-rata refund of any prepaid fees for the period after the discontinuation date.
We have a good-faith belief that your use of the Service violates applicable law, exposes the Operator to liability, or threatens the security or integrity of the Service or our other customers' accounts. In these cases we may suspend or terminate immediately.

9.3 Effect of termination

On termination, your access to the Service ends. We will delete your account information, OAuth tokens, and MiFile credentials per our Privacy Policy. The PDFs already delivered to your Drive or OneDrive remain in your control; Docket does not delete them.

Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including sections 4.5 (failed payments), 8 (intellectual property), 10 (warranties), 11 (limitation of liability), 12 (indemnification), 13 (dispute resolution), and 14 (general).

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including (but not limited to) implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components. We do not warrant that any filing will be delivered within any specific time window, that any specific filing will be captured, or that the Service will detect all filings issued in your matters. You remain solely responsible for monitoring your court deadlines and your matters. Docket is a convenience tool, not a docketing system of record, and it does not replace your professional obligation to know what is happening in your cases.

To the extent any warranty cannot be disclaimed as a matter of law, the duration of that warranty is limited to the shorter of (a) 30 days from your first use of the Service, or (b) the minimum duration required by applicable law.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

Neither party will be liable to the other for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, or business interruption, regardless of the legal theory (contract, tort including negligence, statutory, or otherwise) and even if the party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The Operator's total cumulative liability arising out of or related to these Terms and the Service, for any reason, will not exceed the total amount you paid to the Operator in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to liability.

These limitations apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not apply to (a) your obligation to pay fees, (b) either party's indemnification obligations under section 12, or (c) liabilities that cannot be limited under applicable law.

You acknowledge that the fees for the Service reflect this allocation of risk and that we would not provide the Service on the agreed fees without it.

12. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator, its affiliates, and its respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claim, liability, damage, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

Your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law.
Any document or data you (or anyone using your account) upload, transmit, or cause to be processed through the Service.
Your violation of any third party's rights, including intellectual property rights or privacy rights.
Any claim by a client of yours arising out of the work you perform using the Service.

We will give you prompt written notice of any claim subject to indemnification, allow you to control the defense (provided you do so reasonably and do not settle in a way that imposes obligations on us without our consent), and reasonably cooperate at your expense.

13. Dispute resolution

13.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

13.2 Jurisdiction

Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Oakland County, Michigan, and both parties consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

13.3 Optional arbitration

If both parties agree in writing at the time a dispute arises, the dispute may instead be submitted to binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, with the seat of arbitration in Oakland County, Michigan. Arbitration is optional and requires mutual agreement at the time of the dispute; nothing in these Terms compels arbitration in advance.

13.4 Equitable relief

Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property rights or confidential information.

13.5 Waiver of jury trial and class action

To the maximum extent permitted by law, each party waives the right to a jury trial in connection with any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms. Each party agrees to bring claims only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

14. General

14.1 Notices

Notices to you under these Terms will be sent to the email address on file for your account. Notices to us must be sent to legal@docket-legal.com and to the mailing address listed in our Privacy Policy. Notices are effective upon receipt.

14.2 Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will email all active customers at the email on file at least 30 days before the change takes effect and will update the "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms. Your continued use of the Service after the change takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you may terminate your account before the change takes effect and receive a pro-rata refund of any prepaid fees for the period after termination.

14.3 Assignment

You may not assign these Terms or any rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent, which we will not unreasonably withhold. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of substantially all of our assets, with notice to you.

14.4 Entire agreement

These Terms, including the Privacy Policy incorporated by reference, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, or proposals on the same subject, whether oral or written. If there is any conflict between these Terms and any other Docket document, these Terms control unless the other document expressly says otherwise.

14.5 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force, and the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable while preserving the parties' original intent.

14.6 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of that right or provision.

14.7 Independent contractors

The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or fiduciary relationship.

14.8 Force majeure

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment obligations) caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, pandemics, internet or utility outages, or failures of third-party services.

15. Contact

For questions about these Terms:

legal@docket-legal.com

For billing questions:

billing@docket-legal.com

For security disclosures:

security@docket-legal.com

For general support:

support@docket-legal.com

Mailing address:

Docket c/o Dizik | Kaplan, Attorneys at Law [Mailing address placeholder - Jordan to fill in] Birmingham, Michigan United States