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How to Make Pleadings Open Using Pleading Paper

  • Jun 12, 2026 6:04 PM UTC
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I used Archie to draft a simple motion.  (Thanks, Archie!)  I then asked it to create the motion (which Smokeball oddly refers to as a “form”) from the Archie draft.  He was happy to do so!  Great.  But he did so using letterhead rather than pleading paper.

How can I tell Archie that he is using the wrong format for litigation pleadings?

Micah

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Sara Sultan
Smokeball Team
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  • Smokeball Team
  • Jun 15, 2026 4:22 PM UTC

Hi Micah,

There is a thumbs up and thumbs down icon below the Archie response.  Please give feedback there.  I have passed this on to the Archie team.  

 


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  • Smokeball Genius
  • Jun 22, 2026 4:30 PM UTC

​@MSINDC I also encounter this issue.

Sometimes I just have to start a new chat and copy and paste relevant portions in, stating something like “Our last chat failed because I wanted XYZ but you would not produce it. Below is the relevant portion of the chat session. Use it to produce my outcome XYZ” Or, open the caption as a template and copy and paste over the word doc output from the ai program.


Sara Sultan
Smokeball Team
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  • Smokeball Team
  • Jun 22, 2026 7:32 PM UTC

Thanks for sharing, Jonathan! I have shared this with the Archie team as well.


MaryinNC
  • Contributor
  • Nov 12, 2026 6:27 PM UTC

Is there a way to save a caption as a blank document so that archie can apply it?  None of my team has had success using archie to draft pleadings due to the formatting.


Sara Sultan
Smokeball Team
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  • Smokeball Team
  • Nov 13, 2026 3:24 PM UTC

Hi Mary,

Can you give me a little bit more clarity on what you are looking to do? If you are in Archie and you choose the Draft Document option, when you open it in Word it will ask you to put it on a caption.  We recommend only having Archie draft the body text so you can use the formatted Smart Captions you already set up in Smokeball.  Is this not your firm’s current process?