A Public Services Company · Est. 2003

Legal doc storage
for the average Joe

Don't have LexisNexis but want to log legal files? Upload your files and our team will vet and post them — free, public, and built to be found.

A Public Services Company

About Public
Legal Docs

2003Founded to make
public information public

We are a platform to upload your PDF files to make them accessible to search engine crawlers.

Founded in 2003, Public Legal Docs was born out of frustration that public information isn't really public. Most legal documents — the majority of which are public domain — are stored behind a paywall and inaccessible to search engines. Public Legal Docs set out to change all of that in 2003, and today we're still going strong.

Public domain first
No paywall, ever
Built to be indexed

Services

A simple way to share your PDF files

From your hard drive to the public record in three steps. We handle the vetting and the indexing — you keep the credit.

  1. 01

    You upload

    Send us your PDF or ZIP of public legal documents — briefs, filings, opinions, records.

  2. 02

    We vet

    Our team reviews every submission to confirm it belongs in the public record before it goes live.

  3. 03

    Crawlers find it

    We publish the document in a search-friendly form so Google and other crawlers can index it for everyone.

Our Clients

Trusted for decades by some of the world's most iconic brands.

Apple
VeriSign
RSA
Hubspot
Oracle
Salesforce
Takeda
Johnson & Johnson

Upload Your Legal Documents

Store and share public legal documents

Upload PDF documents to share with Google crawlers. A simple way to upload your PDF files and share them — our team will vet and post every submission.

  • Briefs, filings, opinions and public records welcome
  • Human review before anything is published
  • Indexed so the public can actually find it
Upload file (PDF or ZIP)

Contact us

Questions about a filing?

Whether you have a document to discuss or a question about how the public record works, we read every message.

A Public Services Company

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