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, CD-ROM solution for lawyers to easily and efficiently create, print, store, and eFile 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they are available from public sources, so that you never run the risk of having a filing rejected because you used an out-of-date court form.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

Delivery twice a year, when California Judicial Council Forms are updated, on CD-ROM
Optional add-on 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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Optional County Forms Packages are updated throughout the year whenever there is a change to a form or a new form is added, and include:

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All Counties Forms Package (all California counties, except Alpine County, which does not currently have any county forms)
Bay Area Counties Forms Package (Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma Counties)
Capital Counties Forms Package (Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Tuolumne, and Yolo Counties)

Central Valley Counties Forms Package (Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Sacramento, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, Stanislaus, San Luis Obispo, and Tulare Counties)
SoCal Counties Forms Package (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties)