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Clear terms for a procedural-information service. Last updated 2026-09-03.
BenchPath is a procedural-information service. It compiles court rules, administrative orders, judicial practice preferences, deadlines, and related procedural information from official public sources and presents them with citations, confidence levels, and verification dates. It is a publisher and research tool, not a law firm.
Nothing on BenchPath is legal advice, and using BenchPath does not create an attorney–client relationship. BenchPath does not tell you which motion to file, which form to use, what to argue, whether a deadline applies to your specific facts, or how a matter will be decided. Procedural information is general information; your situation may require a licensed attorney's judgment. If the other side has counsel, if children, your home, your immigration status, or your safety are at stake, if you face criminal exposure, or if a deadline has passed, consult a lawyer licensed in your state or a legal-aid organization.
Court sources change without notice. While BenchPath verifies against official sources and shows a last-verified date on every card, it does not warrant that any entry is current, complete, or error-free, and it does not guarantee that any court will accept any filing. Treat anything below high confidence as a lead, not an answer, and verify urgent deadlines with the court, clerk, or judicial assistant.
You may use BenchPath for lawful research and preparation. You may not scrape or bulk-extract the database beyond the documented public API and its limits, misrepresent BenchPath output as legal advice from BenchPath, resell or repackage the data without permission, submit false or abusive reports, attempt to gain unauthorized access, or use the service to harass any judge, court officer, or other person.
If you submit a correction or a ruling report, you represent that you are authorized to submit the information, that it is not privileged, sealed, or confidential, and that it contains no personal data beyond what is necessary. BenchPath may verify, summarize, publish, decline, or remove contributed content, and may treat unverified reports as leads only. Analyses BenchPath derives from contributed reports are BenchPath's own content.
Official source documents are public records and belong to their issuing courts. BenchPath's compilation, structure, summaries, confidence assessments, and synthesis are BenchPath's. You may quote and link to individual entries with attribution; systematic copying is not permitted.
Paid tiers are described on the pricing page. Payments are processed by Square; card data never touches BenchPath infrastructure. The terms of each plan — what a report includes, credits, seats, renewal, cancellation, and refunds — are presented at checkout and govern the purchase. Accounts created during early access keep the rates locked at signup.
Professional access (attorney licensed in Florida or Texas, Florida Registered Paralegal, and supervised legal staff) is granted on a sworn, scrolled attestation together with the bar you select and the bar number provided, all recorded in immutable, timestamped receipts. That attestation is the single professional tier: every professional surface opens on it and on nothing else. Submitting a bar number that is not yours, impersonating a licensed attorney, or misrepresenting supervision is fraud; depending on the conduct it may constitute criminal offenses — in Florida, the unlicensed practice of law under section 454.23, Florida Statutes (a third-degree felony) and fraudulent use of personal identification information under section 817.568, Florida Statutes; in Texas, falsely holding oneself out as a lawyer under Texas Penal Code section 38.122 (a third-degree felony), the unauthorized practice of law under Texas Penal Code section 38.123, and fraudulent use or possession of identifying information under Texas Penal Code section 32.51; and wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. section 1343 — and will be aggressively pursued, including reporting the conduct and the account's verification receipts to law enforcement, to The Florida Bar (including its Unlicensed Practice of Law department), to the State Bar of Texas (including its Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee), and to other relevant agencies. BenchPath runs internal compliance checks on professional accounts, including checks of submitted credentials against official public records, and may require the account holder to complete identity or credential verification. For paid attorney and firm memberships (monthly or yearly), if the account holder cannot or does not complete requested verification, the membership is subject to cancellation and a non-refundable account-cancellation fee of $499.99, disclosed before purchase. This fee does not apply to free accounts. The professional attestation stands for twelve months from the date it is sworn; when it lapses the account returns to the standard tier until a fresh sworn attestation is recorded, and reminder emails go to the account's own address thirty and seven days before it lapses and on the day it does.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, BenchPath is provided “as is,” and BenchPath and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for any decision made or filing outcome, arising from use of the service. Your remedy for dissatisfaction is to stop using it.
These terms may be updated; material changes will be dated here. The service is operated from and governed by the laws of the State of Florida. Questions and notices go through the corrections and contact channels.
See also our privacy policy, methodology, and corrections process.