How long will your lawsuit take? Get a real answer.
Tertius reads your complaint and compares your case to millions of real federal court records. You get the expected timeline, the odds of dismissal, and how cases like yours actually end — in a report you can print and share.
The preview is free · see a sample report first
How it works
Paste your complaint
The first page usually has everything Tertius needs. No complaint handy? You can type the basics in yourself.
Check what it read
Tertius shows each fact it pulled and the exact line it came from. Fix anything that's off before the numbers run.
Get your report
The timeline preview is free. The full report is $149, stays at the same link, and prints to a clean PDF.
Who it's for
You've been sued
How long will this hang over you? Plan legal spend and settlement talks around a real timeline instead of a guess.
You're suing someone
Know whether you're signing up for months or years — and how cases like yours have actually ended — before you commit.
You're the lawyer
Give your client a timeline with data behind it. The report cites its sources and prints clean enough to forward.
Questions
Is this legal advice?
No. Tertius doesn't tell you whether you'll win or what your case is worth. It measures how long federal cases with your case's characteristics take and how they end, using public court records.
Which cases does it cover?
U.S. federal civil cases — contract, patent, employment, personal injury, antitrust, and so on. State-court cases aren't covered yet.
Where do the numbers come from?
The Federal Judicial Center's public database of federal cases. The model is tested on cases it never saw in training, and its scores are published — nothing is hand-tuned to look good.
What exactly do I get?
The expected timeline with fast and slow paths, how cases like yours end (settled, dismissed, judgment), the dismissal risk as a percentage, what's pushing your timeline up or down, and the group of real cases yours was measured against. One page, printable, yours to keep.
Start with your complaint
orPaste the text of the complaint — the first page is usually enough. It isn't stored beyond building your report.
Tertius forecasts timing and disposition from public federal court records. Every number in the report is a statistical estimate for cases with your case's characteristics — it does not predict who wins, it is not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created. Federal civil cases only. See the terms.