What the worksheet actually does
The tool is a blank structured worksheet. Every word in a finished brief is yours. The page does four mechanical things and no more.
- Presents the fields in a fixed order with per-field character limits, and flags a field that exceeds its limit.
- Counts how many core fields contain any content and shows that count as a presence meter. The meter measures presence, never quality: a field holding a single character counts the same as a paragraph.
- Renders a plain-text preview in a fixed section order, marking required fields you left empty as not provided.
- Copies that preview to your clipboard or sends the page to your printer when you ask it to.
There is no scoring of your analysis, no evaluation of whether your ratio is defensible, no summarization, no artificial intelligence and no suggestion engine. A complete-looking meter says only that boxes contain text.
| Supported | Not supported |
|---|---|
| Typing or pasting your own text into each field | Uploading a PDF, judgment file or transcript |
| Loading a clearly fictional example to see the structure | Parsing or reading a decision from a link or a database |
| Copying the fixed-order plain-text export | Noting up, citator checks or treatment history |
| Printing the worksheet for a paper copy | Doctrinal assessment of whether your holding or ratio is correct |
| Starting over with Reset, behind a confirmation prompt | Autosave, drafts, accounts or recovery of cleared work |
Where to go next
- Copy the finished brief into your own notes before you close the tab, because nothing is retained.
- Collect the authorities your brief relies on into the Table of Authorities Builder when you move from reading to writing.
- Read the companion guide for the full reading sequence and a worked example, then return here to fill the worksheet.
Privacy, academic integrity and independence
Privacy on this page. The worksheet runs entirely in your browser. Field contents are never sent to a server, never appear in the page URL, and are never included in analytics or logs. Your text is held in page memory only: reloading the page or confirming Reset discards it immediately, and there is no autosave and no recovery. Copying the export or printing the page exposes that content to your own device's clipboard, printer and print-to-file destination. Because a browser is not a secure workspace, do not enter confidential client information, sealed materials, or anything covered by a publication ban or similar restriction.
Academic integrity. This is your brief, and submitting it means asserting that you read the decision and wrote the analysis. The tool produces no analysis to borrow. Confirm your course's expectations about brief format, permitted collaboration and the use of study aids.
Independence. LegalCalc Ontario is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any law school, faculty, court, publisher or citation guide, including McGill University, the McGill Law Journal and Thomson Reuters or Carswell. The field structure is a generic teaching pattern, not any institution's prescribed template.