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30 years & 50 billion
judicial filings.
Essential Forms has been the most widely used California Judicial Council Forms software for the past 30 years, and has been used by California attorneys to file more than 50 billion judicial filings. Essential Forms provides a reliable software solution for lawyers to easily and efficiently create, print, store, and e-File California Judicial Council Forms and county forms. Your annual subscription gives you the most up-to-date versions of judicial and county forms, weeks before they are available from public sources, so that you never run the risk of having a filing rejected because you used an out-of-date court form.
Essential Forms includes:
- All California Judicial Council Forms
- Shrink-to-fit fonts, custom form groups, custom fields, and a database that automatically fills in new forms with shared data
- Electronic updates when California Judicial Council Forms are updated
- Optional add-on Regional County Forms Packages, updated electronically throughout the year whenever there is a change to a form or a new form is added
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