> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.holace.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Litigation Tab

> Where deadlines, court orders, and litigation documents live once a case crosses into the Litigation avenue.

The **Litigation tab** activates on a journey the moment the case enters the **Litigation Avenue**. Up until that point — Prospect or Pre-Litigation — the tab shows a *Case not in litigation* message. After: it becomes the working surface for the rest of the case.

\[Screenshot: Journey detail page with the Litigation tab highlighted in the tab bar, sitting between Investigations and Demand]

## When it appears

The tab is visible on every journey but its content is gated. You'll see the working layout once the journey:

* Has been moved into the **Litigation Avenue**, and
* Has a **Litigation Stage** assigned (Petition Filed, Answer Received, Discovery, Depositions, Mediation, Trial, or Verdict)

If the case is not yet in litigation, the tab shows a small card explaining how to move it: from the Avenue page or from the journey's **Edit Journey** drawer.

\[Screenshot: "Not yet in litigation" placeholder card with the explanation message]

## What's inside

Once active, the Litigation tab is a **two-column** layout — main work area on the left, sticky reference rail on the right.

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Main column" icon="bars">
    Scheduling Order, Stage Banner, and the six document sections (Discovery, Affidavits, Expert Designation, Depositions, Mediation Packet, Trial Binder).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sidebar" icon="sidebar">
    Case Quick Stats, Documents Generated log, running Document Expenses total, and the Attorney Review reminder.
  </Card>
</Columns>

\[Screenshot: Full Litigation tab with the Scheduling Order card at the top, document sections beneath, and the right sidebar visible]

## The pieces

* **Scheduling Order card** — Upload the court's scheduling order; HoLaCe extracts deadlines for review. Two states (empty / loaded). [Read more →](/legal-workflow/litigation-deadlines)
* **Stage Banner** — Pill track showing where the case is in the litigation lifecycle plus the court name, case number, and countdown to the next big date.
* **Document sections** — Six AI-assisted generators for plaintiff-side litigation work product. [Read more →](/legal-workflow/litigation-documents)
* **Sidebar — Case Quick Stats** — Demand amount, gross medicals, case age, and assigned attorney pulled from the journey.
* **Sidebar — Documents Generated** — Running log of every litigation document produced on this case, with status pills.
* **Sidebar — Document Expenses** — Running total of the litigation-document fees being billed to the case.
* **Sidebar — Attorney Review notice** — The reminder that no AI-generated document ships without attorney sign-off.

## Take the Tour

If this is your first case in litigation, click **Take the Tour** on the tab — it opens an interactive walkthrough of every section with sample data so you can see the full state machine without committing real work.

\[Screenshot: "Take the Tour" button in the upper right of the Litigation tab]

## Jurisdiction-agnostic by design

HoLaCe **does not normalize** court-order terminology. A "Docket Control Order" in Texas, a "Case Management Order" in California, and a "Scheduling Order" in federal court all live under the generic *Case Scheduling Order* card — and every deadline name is stored **exactly as the court wrote it**. The system never translates *Final Pretrial Submission* into something HoLaCe-specific.

This matters because a Texas state-court attorney and a New Mexico federal attorney can both use the same tab without one of them seeing renamed deadlines they don't recognize.

<Note>
  Pricing for AI-generated litigation documents is per-firm: see [Admin → Firm Pricing Configuration](/admin-cross-cutting/admin-portal/billing).
</Note>

## What's next

* [Litigation Deadlines](/legal-workflow/litigation-deadlines) — uploading the scheduling order and managing deadline rows.
* [Litigation Documents](/legal-workflow/litigation-documents) — generating Interrogatories, RFP, RFA, DWQ, Affidavits, Expert Designations, Depo Summaries, Mediation Packets, and Trial Binders.