What's new in LitArbi.

Paris, sixty-fifth build — updated on 19 October 2026 (build 171): fixes.

• Arbitrator, after the fact. Case Settings ▸ Our side now offers Arbitrator beside the parties, so a matter created as Claimant can become an arbitrator's matter (and back). The list is in LitArbi's language.
• Outlook messages. A .msg file is read without Outlook: on import it gets its name, date and author from the message, its text is searchable, the preview shows the message, and bundles and e-briefs turn it into PDF — no LibreOffice needed.
• A second signature keeps the first. Signing a PDF adds the signature to the file as it is, so a PDF signed by a colleague or through Skribble stays valid; signatures use SHA-256; only certificates meant for signing documents are offered; Settings ▸ e-Signing lists the certificates on this Mac.
• No silent commands. A command that can't work right now is greyed out or says why, instead of doing nothing.
• Settings, aligned. Labels, notes, checkboxes and buttons start at one left edge; long section names fit the sidebar.
• Safer updates. LitArbi installs an update only if it is LitArbi, signed by us, notarized and newer than the copy you have.
• SLAM. The Sports Law Arbitration Moot is the thirteenth moot competition.

From the first build of 0.9.65 (13 October):

• Locked means locked. Update Exhibits from Brief now keeps the number of a locked exhibit, cited or not; the other exhibits are numbered around it.
• The citation pane keeps up. Exhibits imported, synced or renumbered while the citation pane is open now appear in it at once; your search, the filter and the citation you are building stay.
• Manfred Lachs. A licence for the Manfred Lachs moot now shows the season it belongs to: one that ends in October 2027 is 2026–27.
• Reset resets everything. Settings ▸ Citation ▸ Reset now also resets the short form for awards.
• Licence agreement at hand. Help ▸ Licence Agreement (EULA) and Help ▸ Privacy Policy open them on litarbi.app in LitArbi's language; the activation window says that activating accepts the terms of use and licence agreement.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, sixty-fourth build: what LitArbi is made of.

• About ▸ Acknowledgements. The About window now says openly what LitArbi is built from: no code from other parties, only the frameworks of macOS. It also lists the outside services LitArbi works with — and only when you use them: LibreOffice, if you have installed it; the AI provider you choose with your own key; GitHub, to check for updates; Paddle, for buying a licence. The privacy policy says what each of them receives.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, sixty-third build: citations from several copies of a shared matter fit together.

• Citations from different computers no longer cancel each other out. When a matter is shared as a file (File ▸ Export ▸ Share Matter…), several people cite from their own copies — co-counsel, co-arbitrators, a moot team's writers. Each computer used to number its citations from one, so the same citation inserted on two computers could carry the same internal name in Word. When the texts were put into one brief, Word kept only one of them, and the other was no longer updated by Update from Brief or listed in the List of Exhibits or the Index of Authorities. Each computer now marks its citations with a tag of its own. Matters shared through LitArbi Server were not affected.
• A citation of many documents names them itself. A citation naming many documents at once used to keep its list of documents in the matter of the computer it was inserted on, so other copies couldn't recognise it. Such citations now carry their documents themselves — up to fourteen in one citation — and every copy reads them.
• The Football Moot (IFAM). Moot court teams of the International Football Arbitration Moot can create their moot matter: footnotes and exhibits C-1 / R-1 as in CAS practice, a List of Authorities with the short forms, and the competition's rule on AI (Rule 13).

Update LitArbi on every computer of a team that shares a matter. Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, sixty-second build: a fix for Update from Brief.

• Update from Brief renumbers again after a document was renamed. While Word renames a document or saves it under a new name, it briefly reports no name. LitArbi took that for a document called “missing value”, asked which document it was and, with the suggested answer, filed it with the submission as a witness statement that could never be opened. From then on Update from Brief kept every number, and a newly cited exhibit got the next free number instead of its place in the order of citation. LitArbi no longer takes Word’s missing name for a document, and a matter that already lists one is repaired when it opens.
• Not Part of It: when Update from Brief finds a document filed with the submission whose citations it has never seen, you can now take that document out of the submission — for example the old name of a renamed document — and renumber by the citations right away, instead of only keeping the numbers.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, sixty-first build: four more moot courts, the library passed on to next year's team, and citations in Spanish.

• Moot Madrid: the Spanish-language Competición Internacional de Arbitraje y Derecho Mercantil. The moot matter writes in Spanish: the record as the case labels it ("Doc. de la Notificación n.º 6, p. 16"), procedural orders by name with "párr.", footnotes, and a Lista de autoridades that lists the paragraphs citing each source.
• Nuremberg Moot Court: memoranda for the Prosecution and the Defence, with footnotes under the competition's own Rules of Citation — in full the first time with the short title in parentheses, the short title after that.
• Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot and African Human Rights Moot: New Moot Matter asks for the language of the memorials — English, French or Spanish for the World Moot, English or French for the African Moot — and sets up the citations (para., par., párr.) and the index (Table of Authorities, Table des autorités, Tabla de autoridades; Index of Authorities, Index des autorités) in that language.
• Pass On to Next Year's Team (File ▸ Export, with a moot licence): saves a copy of the moot matter with its legal authorities — their files, short forms, tags, summaries and, if you like, your notes — and leaves behind the problem, the record, your memoranda, the AI Protocol, exhibit numbers and any password. Next year's team imports it with File ▸ Import ▸ Shared Matter… and opens it with its own moot key.
• Citations in Spanish: a matter whose exhibit term is "Documento", "Anexo" or "Doc. de la" writes its legal output in Spanish, with "párr." / "párrs." for paragraphs — and Update reads them back.
• Ukrainian: arbitration terms now follow Ukrainian practice — арбітражний трибунал, співарбітр, Перелік посилань.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, sixtieth build: LitArbi in Ukrainian.

• Ukrainian: menus, windows, the ribbon and every message are now available in Ukrainian. Choose it under Settings ▸ General ▸ Language, or let LitArbi follow macOS. LitArbi now speaks six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian.
• AI summaries in Ukrainian: Settings ▸ Translation lets you choose Ukrainian as the language of AI summaries.
• Citation forms and the List of Exhibits follow the matter's citation convention, as before (English, German or French).

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, fifty-ninth build: Vis Moot citations the way the memoranda write them, and ¶ or “para.” as you choose.

• Vis Moot matters cite like the memoranda: the page before the paragraph, and “para.”: [Exhibit C 1, p. 10, para. 5], [Born, p. 1234, paras. 12–14]. The List of Authorities puts the short form first: Cited as · Authority · Cited in.
• ¶ or “para.”: choose the paragraph sign for a matter (Matter ▸ Case Settings…) or as your default (Settings ▸ Citation). It applies to every citation and to the Index of Authorities. Update Exhibits from Brief re-renders the citations already in your brief.
• Treaties, books and journal articles are no longer set in italics in the List of Exhibits and the Index of Authorities. An index without a “Cited as” column (Jessup) is sorted by the full reference.
• Fixed: updating citations in square brackets (Vis style) could double the closing bracket.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, fifty-eighth build: activate LitArbi in one click from your licence email.

• The Activate LitArbi button: the licence email and the activation reminders now lead to a page on litarbi.app that opens LitArbi with your key, and LitArbi activates itself. If LitArbi isn't installed yet, the same page has the downloads for Mac and Windows; afterwards, one more click activates it.
• If this Mac already has another licence, LitArbi asks before replacing it. A licence provided by your organisation is never replaced from a link.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, fifty-seventh build: the bundle ticks every exhibit your brief cites.

• Bundle Exhibits pre-selects what the submission cites: the exhibits its citations in Word name, plus the ones marked as used. Before, it ticked the exhibits of the submission's List of Exhibits. For a numbering that continues an earlier submission (a Memorandum after a Notice of Dispute), that list shows only the new exhibits, so the exhibits first numbered earlier were left out of the bundle. Without a document open in Word, all exhibits of the numbering are ticked.
• The licence check tells LitArbi's licence service that it runs on a Mac, for the Mac/Windows statistics (see the privacy notice).

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, fifty-sixth build: deliver a bundle by a download link from your firm's LitArbi Server.

• A download link with the ZIP: for a matter on your firm's LitArbi Server, Deliver Bundle can also upload the password-protected ZIP and make a download link, valid for 7, 14, 30 or 90 days. You get the link with a Copy Link button. The recipient needs no account; you send the password separately, by phone or SMS. Needs LitArbi Server 1.5.
• The link is made only for a password-protected ZIP, and never for an end-to-end encrypted matter. You or the matter's owners can end it at any time on the server, under Members & access.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; download links need LitArbi Server 1.5.

Paris, fifty-fifth build: the relink after bundling in seconds, and Deliver Bundle fixed.

• Relinking the brief to the bundle is fast and never freezes LitArbi: only each citation's link address changes now. The citation text, bold and italics, highlights and your own words stay exactly as they are. Before, every citation was rewritten, and a brief with 123 footnotes took several minutes. Word is asked in the background, and LitArbi's windows stay usable meanwhile. If Word stops answering, LitArbi gives up after two minutes and says so.
• Deliver Bundle creates the ZIP again: clicks made while LitArbi was busy could open a second Deliver window, and Create ZIP then did nothing in the first. Now there is one window per bundle, and it always works. Suggest and Copy are no longer cut off.
• Share… after the ZIP is made: macOS's Share menu for the ZIP, with iCloud Drive's link and the share options of Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive where installed.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, fifty-fourth build: LitArbi for firms — licences from IT and from the firm's LitArbi Server.

• A licence without typing a key: with LitArbi Server 1.4, the firm's server provides the licence when a lawyer signs in, or with Get a licence from my firm's LitArbi Server…. The licence window shows who provides it and the key only shortened. If the firm releases the Mac, the licence ends there.
• A configuration profile for IT: a Mac profile can set the firm's volume key (each Mac activates by itself), lock the organisation's licence, pre-fill the firm's server, and choose how updates arrive: automatically, notify only (IT installs them) or off. These are the same settings as the Group Policy on Windows.
• Check now asks the firm's server (or uses IT's key) for a licence the organisation provides, never undoing a release by the firm.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later; licences from the firm's server need LitArbi Server 1.4.

Paris, fifty-third build: bundling without the wait, and links for every exhibit.

• No more frozen app while bundling: Word saves the submission as PDF in the background while the wizard shows what it is doing. Relinking the citations in Word afterwards counts along, footnote by footnote.
• Videos and other non-PDF exhibits are linked too: a citation of a video (or a spreadsheet) in the linked submission opens the file in its own app. PDFs still open at the cited page.
• Paragraph pinpoints found more reliably: numbers like "2.1.17", which reports often set in a column of their own, now take the link to the right page.
• Build 158: the Moot Court Edition. With a moot court licence, LitArbi opens with a splash of its own, showing the team's competitions, season and name.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, fifty-second build: bundles for your submission, with the submission itself as a linked PDF.

• The right exhibits, ticked: Bundle Exhibits asks which Word submission the bundle is for (when several are open) and ticks exactly the exhibits in its List of Exhibits, plus any you marked "used". Before, only the exhibits marked "used" were ticked, which could be just a handful.
• The submission as PDF, automatically: Word saves the submission as a PDF, exactly as Word lays it out, and every citation of a bundled exhibit becomes a link to it, at the cited page or paragraph. The links are relative, so they keep working wherever the submission and the bundle folder go together. The first time, Word asks for access to LitArbi's "Word Export" folder; grant it once. Choose Submission PDF… still takes a PDF of your own, and × leaves the submission out.
• No stray paths: links to files on your Mac (Word's links into LitArbi's storage) are removed from the submission PDF; web links and the contents stay.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, fifty-first build: the List of Exhibits on its own, and case names in italics.

• Update List of Exhibits (Submission menu) rebuilds the List of Exhibits in the document, and its Index of Authorities if it has one, with the exhibits as they are now. It doesn't re-read the citations or renumber anything. List of Exhibits on a document that already has a list now offers to update it instead of inserting a second one.
• Case names in italics in the List of Exhibits and the Index of Authorities, as in the citations: Emilio Agustín Maffezini v. The Kingdom of Spain, ICSID Case No. ARB/97/7, … Treaties, laws and factual exhibits stay upright.
• Case names with commas are recognised whole, in citations too: Gas Natural SDG, S.A. v. Argentine Republic, Waste Management, Inc. v. United Mexican States.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, fiftieth build: the citation pane's document menu keeps up.

• "Into:" lists every document open in Word, including those you open after the pane. The list is read again whenever you click into the pane or open the menu. Before, it only knew the documents that were open when the pane appeared, so you couldn't switch to one opened later.
• It follows your work: docked beside Word, "Into:" switches to the document you bring to the front. A document you pick in the menu stays picked until you switch Word windows.
• Two open documents with the same name are both listed.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-ninth build: PDF conversion that tells you what happened.

• Office documents become PDFs with LibreOffice (free; it works in the background, no windows) when you bundle exhibits or build an e-brief. Microsoft Office can't do it for LitArbi: macOS keeps Office's folders closed to other apps. The old route through Word, Excel or PowerPoint therefore never worked, and the files went into the bundle unstamped without a word.
• A warning before you start: without LibreOffice, LitArbi says how many exhibits need converting and what will happen to them, and offers Get LibreOffice….
• A report afterwards: every file that couldn't be converted is listed with the reason. In a bundle it is included as it is, without the exhibit stamp; in an e-brief it is listed on the cover without pages.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-eighth build: Prepare for Filing.

• Prepare for Filing (Submission ▸ Prepare for Filing…, or Filing in the Submission ribbon). LitArbi saves a filing copy of the brief and leaves the original as it is. In the copy:

- the citations become plain text; - tracked changes are accepted and comments deleted, if you choose; - the author, company, custom document properties and the template's path on your Mac are removed.

LitArbi then checks the copy and lists anything that still gives away who wrote it: file paths on your computer, hidden text, names of people who edited or commented, leftover comments or tracked changes. For a PDF, open the copy in Word and save it as PDF.

• For moot teams, the check also looks for your team, your university and your own name, everywhere in the file: the text, footnotes, headers and footers, the document properties and the file name. Each hit comes with the passage it stands in. The dialog also states your competition's rule, for example the team number only for the Jessup, the John H. Jackson and the Manfred Lachs.
• Clean Metadata now really accepts tracked changes in the cleaned copy (Microsoft Word does it). It also removes the list of people who commented or tracked changes.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-seventh build: the Index of Authorities, and LitArbi for moot court teams.

• Index of Authorities (Submission ▸ Insert Index of Authorities). Every legal authority your submission cites, grouped into treaties and legislation, books and commentaries, articles, court decisions and arbitral awards. Each entry gives its full reference, the short form it is cited as, and the paragraphs of your submission that cite it (typed "12." or Word's own numbering). Update Exhibits from Brief keeps it current.
• Three new kinds of authority: Treaty / Legislation, Book / Commentary and Court Decision, next to Legal Authority, Journal Article and Award. The inspector's short-name field is now called "Cited as". That is the form citations use and the index lists.
• Moot court mode. Teams in the Willem C. Vis, Jessup, Henry Dunant, Sports Arbitration (SAM), FDI, John H. Jackson and Manfred Lachs moots get a free licence for the season. File ▸ New Matter then sets the matter up from the competition's rules:

- the record keeps the organisers' numbers; - citations take the competition's form (in the text for the Vis); - the index is the one the rules ask for: the Vis List of Authorities with paragraphs, the Jessup Index of Authorities with pages, SAM's numbered list of legal authorities, and so on; - LitArbi's AI summaries stay off where a competition's rules forbid summarising sources with AI.

Details: moot.litarbi.app.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-sixth build: LitArbi in Spanish and Russian.

• Español. Every screen, menu, dialog and message in Spanish, using the terms of Spanish-language arbitration: anexo, índice de anexos, escrito, memorial, declaración testimonial, informe pericial, laudo, resolución procesal, Demandante and Demandada.
• Русский. Every screen, menu, dialog and message in Russian: приложение, перечень приложений, процессуальный документ, письменные показания свидетеля, заключение эксперта, арбитражное решение, процессуальное постановление, истец and ответчик.
• Choose the language in Settings ▸ General ▸ Language, or let LitArbi follow the Mac's language. AI summaries can now also be written in Spanish or Russian.
• Two new date styles: Spanish (5 de mayo de 2025) and Russian (5 мая 2025 г.), in Settings ▸ General ▸ Date display.
• Roomier ribbon. Buttons with longer names (in German and Russian especially) now show their whole label.
• Citations and Lists of Exhibits follow the matter's convention as before (English, German or French), whatever language the app uses.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-fifth build: witness statements and expert reports share the numbering of the submission they are filed with.

• Filed with the submission. A witness statement or expert report cites in the exhibit numbers of its submission: an exhibit both cite has the submission's number, and exhibits only the witness statement or report cites are numbered after the submission's own (the Statement of Claim ends at C-40, CWS-1's own exhibits become C-41 and C-42, the expert report's C-43 …).
• You decide, once per document. The first time you cite into a document LitArbi hasn't seen in the matter, it asks what it is: filed with a submission (preselected for names like CWS-1, RWS-2, CER-1, Witness Statement, Expert Report, Zeugenaussage, Gutachten), a submission of its own with its own numbering, or a new version of a document it knows. A copy saved under a new name ("… v2", "(clean)", "final", "signed", a date in front) is recognised without asking.
• Update Exhibits from Brief reads the whole submission. The submission first, then each witness statement and report in their order. Every one that is open in Word is read and rewritten. One that isn't open counts with the citations LitArbi last saw in it, so updating one document never takes a number away from another. If LitArbi has never read one of them, it keeps every number rather than guess.
• Submission ▸ Numbering ▸ Witness Statements and Expert Reports… shows what is filed with each submission and lets you change the order, add documents or take them off.
• A witness statement's List of Exhibits lists the exhibits it cites itself, with the submission's numbers.
• LibreOffice: Update in a witness statement or its submission keeps the numbers and gives only unnumbered exhibits the next free one.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-fourth build: exhibit types in German and French, everywhere they appear.

• Exhibit types in your language. The type menu in the inspector, the sidebar, the Insert Citation pane, the import dialog, Settings ▸ General, the bundle wizard and the exhibit report now show the types in the app's language — Zeugenaussage, Rechtsquelle, Schiedsspruch; Pièce factuelle, Autorité juridique, Sentence. Five types had no German or French name at all (Factual Exhibit, Pleading / Submission, Journal Article, Award, Procedural Order).
• "Order" as a document. The type "Order" now reads Beschluss / Ordonnance — it had borrowed the translation of the sort order.
• Nothing changes in your matters. Types are stored exactly as before, so citations, numbering codes and matters shared with colleagues who use LitArbi in another language are unaffected.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-third build: Restore Citation Links for footnotes with several exhibits, and citations keep the footnote's size.

• Several exhibits and your own additions. A footnote such as "Exhibit CER-2, para. 2.1.17 and para. 2.1.23; Exhibit C-41; Exhibit C-42, …, Note 13" is now relinked too. Only the citation goes into the linked field. What you added after it stays as your own text, and Update Exhibits from Brief keeps it from now on.
• The footnote's own size. Word gave linked citations the size of the Normal style (12 pt in many templates) instead of the footnote style's (e.g. 9 pt). Citations written by Restore, Update and new citations now take the footnote style's size. A citation font set in Settings ▸ Citation still takes precedence.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-second build: citations get their links back, and beta testers get an early-adopter price.

• Restore Citation Links (Submission menu). Some routes strip LitArbi's fields, links and bookmarks from citations: a document made from a firm template, stored on SharePoint, or run through a clean-up tool. The citations then read correctly but are dead text. LitArbi now recognises them and links them again. Numbers and wording stay exactly as they are. Update Exhibits from Brief picks them up too. Only footnotes that read word for word as LitArbi cites an exhibit are touched. Your own sentences are left alone.
• Early adopters. Beta testers get 30% off their first year when they switch to a paid plan: on the monthly plan the first 12 payments, on the yearly plan the first year. The licence window shows the offer with an Upgrade… button, and Buy a Licence… applies the discount by itself. After the payment LitArbi switches to the new licence.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, forty-first build: the licence keeps up with your subscription while LitArbi runs.

• Checked while LitArbi runs. LitArbi checks your subscription every 12 hours and after your Mac wakes, not only when it starts. A renewal is picked up right away.
• If a renewal payment fails (an expired card, for example), LitArbi keeps working for 7 days after the due date and tells you so, with a button to update your payment method. Paddle tries the payment again. Once it goes through, LitArbi carries on by itself.
• No false "Subscription expired". If you haven't opened LitArbi for a while, it now asks the licence server before calling a subscription expired. A renewal paid in the meantime is recognised at once.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, fortieth build — the citation font list and tidier Settings.

• Citation font: every font Word offers. Settings ▸ Citation ▸ Citation font now lists Calibri, Cambria, Garamond, Aptos, Century Gothic and the other fonts that come with Microsoft Office, next to the Mac's own fonts. macOS doesn't list them because Office keeps them to itself. Word still applies them to your citations.
• Settings, laid out properly. The forms use the width of the window. Long labels wrap instead of being cut off at the start. Template fields show the whole template. Explanations, checkboxes and status lines wrap at the window's width. Rows of buttons move one under the other when the window is narrow. This works on every tab and in English, German and French. The window opens a little larger and remembers its size.
• Menus with no matter open. Settings, Help, Report a Bug, New Matter, Clients & Matters and Open or Join a Shared Matter now also work when only the matter overview is open.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-ninth build — buy a licence without leaving LitArbi.

• Buy a Licence… — in the LitArbi menu, in the licence window, and wherever a guest meets something that needs a licence of their own (sharing, inviting, opening their own matters). The matter overview shows it too while you use LitArbi as a guest.
• Right inside the app. The window shows the plans and the price calculator, with the checkout by Paddle, our reseller, and your address already filled in. After the payment LitArbi activates itself on this Mac. The key also arrives by email, for your second computer. If you prefer the browser, Open in Browser takes you to litarbi.app.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-eighth build — the add-ins number each submission in its own numbering.

• LibreOffice and the Word macro follow the document's numbering. In a matter with several numberings (Memorandum, Notice of Dispute, Statement of Claim …), LitArbi's export for the add-ins now carries every numbering and which document follows which. The LibreOffice extension and the stand-alone Word macro cite and renumber a document in its numbering, not the one open in LitArbi. Numbers on record from the submission it continues and the other side's (R-5, RL-2) are kept, and new exhibits follow on after them. The Word ribbon already worked this way.
• LibreOffice: Update no longer adds a second List of Exhibits. Update and Refresh now replace the list in place.
• Duplicate numbers after a sync are checked in every numbering. When two computers number while one is offline, LitArbi now also warns about a number used twice in the Notice of Dispute or the Statement of Claim, e.g. "C-3 (Notice of Dispute)", not only in the main numbering.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-seventh build — the matter overview gets the Windows functions.

• Clients & Matters, as on Windows. The overview keeps its two panes — clients on the left (the matters on your LitArbi Server that are not on this computer first), their matters on the right — and gains Refresh (asks the server again) and Join a Shared Matter… at the top, and Import Shared Matter… (a .litarbi.zip archive) at the bottom. Matters on the server show a cloud, encrypted ones a cloud with a lock. Esc closes the window.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-sixth build — LitArbi starts again for everyone on a LitArbi Server; one numbering scheme for the whole team, and every submission's numbers in the browser.

• Fixed: LitArbi quit right after its start. For everyone signed in to a LitArbi Server, versions 0.9.32 to 0.9.35 could close themselves a moment after the splash screen: the matter overview waited for the server's answer before it appeared, and an app without a window quits. The overview now appears at once (the server's matters are added when they arrive), and LitArbi never quits during its start. If your LitArbi closes at start, download this version from litarbi.app and replace the app once — the automatic update can't reach an app that closes.

• The numbering conventions travel with a shared matter. Type codes (CL- for legal authorities, CWS- for witness statements …), per-party numbering and manual numbering used to come from each computer's own settings when a matter had none of its own — two colleagues could number the same matter differently. A shared matter now carries them: every colleague's LitArbi and LitArbi Web number by the matter's conventions.
• LitArbi Web shows each submission's numbers. With LitArbi Server 1.3, the browser view of a matter has a Numbering switch in the sidebar — the Memorandum, the Notice of Dispute, the Statement of Claim …: the list, the inspector, citations, downloads and ZIPs use the chosen submission's numbers, numbers on record from the submission it continues in grey. Each person's choice is remembered.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later (the numbering switch in the browser needs 1.3).

Paris, thirty-fifth build — nothing is lost: backups for every lawyer, and the server's history in the app.

• Backups without a LitArbi Server. Settings ▸ Backup copies every matter on this Mac — its database and all exhibit files, also files kept elsewhere — into a folder you choose: an external disk, a NAS, or the folder of iCloud Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive. Everything is encrypted with your backup password (AES-256); nothing in the folder is readable without it — not even for LitArbi. Daily while LitArbi runs, and each file only once, so a daily backup takes seconds. The newest backup of each of the last 14 days, 8 weeks and 12 months is kept.
• Restore on any Mac. File ▸ Restore Matters from a Backup… (or Settings ▸ Backup ▸ Restore…): choose the folder, enter the password, pick a date and the matters — they come back with their files. A matter that is still on the Mac comes back beside it as a copy.
• No matter only on this Mac without you knowing. The footer says Only on this Mac — no backup for a matter that is neither on a LitArbi Server nor backed up, and LitArbi reminds you once a week. It also checks Time Machine: set up or not, and whether it leaves out LitArbi's matters.
• Recently deleted on the server. In a shared matter, Matter ▸ Recently Deleted on the Server… lists what was deleted for good on any computer (also by emptying LitArbi's Trash) — each step with its exhibits, who and when — and Restore brings it back on every computer, with its files.
• History of an exhibit. Exhibit ▸ History on the Server… (⌥⌘Y, also in the context menu) shows every earlier version — who changed it, when, and what changed next — with Restore This Version. End-to-end encrypted matters work too: the titles are opened on your computer only. Needs LitArbi Server 1.2 or later.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later (the server screens need 1.2).

Paris, thirty-fourth build — every submission keeps its own exhibit numbers, in one matter.

• A numbering per submission. Submission ▸ Numbering (and the new Numbering button on the Submission tab) holds one set of exhibit numbers per submission: the internal Memorandum can have C-1 … C-65 while the Notice of Dispute has its own C-1 … C-78 — the same exhibits, no copy of the matter. Switch between them at any time; the list, citations, Update from Brief, the List of Exhibits, bundles and e-briefs all follow the one in use.
• Later submissions continue earlier ones. A new numbering either starts at 1 or continues a numbering you choose — the Statement of Claim continues the Notice of Dispute: exhibits already on record keep their numbers (shown in grey), exhibits new in the Statement follow on (C-79 … C-250). The Reply continues the Statement, the Post-Hearing Briefs the Reply — as many rounds as the case has. Where … Continues… changes it later, and Continue after (e.g. “C-78, CL-45”) picks up numbers given outside LitArbi.
• Filed submissions stay filed. Update from Brief in a continuing submission never renumbers what is on record; updating a submission that a later one continues asks first and offers to keep its numbers.
• Each Word document knows its numbering. The first time you cite into a document LitArbi asks which submission it is (a new draft is recognised by its name) and remembers it — a citation in the Notice of Dispute can never take a number from the Memorandum.
• The other side's numbers stay theirs. The Respondent's documents (R-1, RL-2 …) keep their numbers in every submission; Update from Brief and Clear numbers no longer renumber or clear them — also in matters with a single numbering. A document of the other side without its number is not given one of yours.
• In a submission that continues another, the List of Exhibits can show only the exhibits new in it, or all on record; the Bundle wizard starts with the exhibits new in it.
• Shared matters: numberings travel to your colleagues through the LitArbi Server; which numbering you work in is your own choice on each computer.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-third build — sign in on another computer, and LitArbi asks to sync your matters.

• Your matters follow you to every computer. When you sign in to your firm's LitArbi Server (Settings ▸ LitArbi Server) — on a new Mac, a second Mac or a Windows PC — LitArbi now asks right away: Sync with the LitArbi Server. Your matters on the server that are not on this computer yet are listed and ticked; Sync copies them here with their files and keeps them in step.
• …and the other way round. Matters that live only on this computer are listed too, so they can go onto your firm's server in the same step (optionally end-to-end encrypted) — then your other computers have them as well.
• New matters are offered as they appear. When a colleague shares a matter with you, LitArbi asks once, at start or when you come back to it. Anything you leave for later stays in the matter overview under On the LitArbi Server, and File ▸ Sync Matters with the LitArbi Server… asks about everything again.
• Your own encrypted matters need no code on your other computers — your password already opens your key. The one-time code is only asked for when someone invites you.
• Joining another firm's matters (File ▸ Join a Shared Matter…) now offers all the matters you were invited to at once.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-second build — your shared matters on a second computer in one click, and clouds that tell you when something is wrong.

• One click to get a matter onto another computer. The matter overview (Cases on the Matter tab, and at start) now lists, under On the LitArbi Server, the shared matters that are not on this computer yet — from your firm's server and from every firm that invited you. Select one and click Download (or double-click): LitArbi copies it with its files and opens it.
• The cloud next to each exhibit is now clear at a glance: green — on the server and on this computer; orange — waiting to be sent; blue — being downloaded; red — could not be downloaded, with the reason when you point at it (the file is not on the server, arrived damaged, or could not be saved). LitArbi tries again at every sync; the status line counts the files that failed. Being offline is not an error — those files simply wait.

Universal, notarized. Works with LitArbi Server 1.1 and later.

Paris, thirty-first build — co-counsel on your matters, end-to-end encryption, and a server that looks after itself.

• Invite co-counsel, experts and the client. The Matter tab has a new Sharing group: Share, Invite, Open Shared, Members and Keys. Invite gives a colleague of your firm access at once; anyone outside the firm gets a guest account and an invitation link to send them — only the matters you invite them to, two-step sign-in, marked External, with an end date if you like, and not counted in your firm's server licence.
• Working on another firm's matters. File ▸ Join a Shared Matter… (or the link on the invitation page) signs you in to the other firm's LitArbi Server as their guest — next to your own firm's server. Open Shared lists the matters of every server you belong to. Without a LitArbi licence, invited matters are free: the licence window offers Continue free as a guest.
• End-to-end encrypted matters. When you share a matter, tick End-to-end encrypted: exhibits, notes, full texts and files reach the server only encrypted, and the key exists only on the members' computers. When you invite someone to such a matter, LitArbi gives you a one-time code to tell them by phone; their LitArbi proves it, yours then hands over the key — confirmed both ways, so nobody, not even whoever controls the server, can slip in a key of their own. Without a code, you compare the key's fingerprint with them (Keys ▸ Compare Fingerprints…). Administrators create a firm recovery key once (Matter ▸ Firm Recovery Key…); a new one can only replace it when confirmed with the current one.
• A new licence window, clearer and in LitArbi's colours: plan, renewal date, key (with a copy button) and this Mac at a glance.
• Clearer licence keys. App keys start with LITARBI-, keys for a firm's LitArbi Server with LITSRV-; a server key typed into the licence window now says where it belongs instead of failing.
• Two-step sign-in. If your account uses a code from an authenticator app, LitArbi asks for it when you sign in. Recovery codes work too.
• The server's licence is checked by LitArbi itself. If a firm's licence lapses, nobody is locked out: the matter stays readable, and your changes wait on your Mac until it is renewed.
• Uploads that wait instead of failing, and self-healing files: once an hour LitArbi offers the server the files it has and sends again any the server lost or found damaged.

Universal, notarized. Needs LitArbi Server 1.1 with an activated licence for shared matters; matters on this Mac only are unchanged.

Paris, thirtieth build — shared matters on your firm's own LitArbi Server.

• LitArbi Server. Your firm runs its own server — PHP and MySQL on the firm's web hosting, installed by us. Sign in under Settings ▸ LitArbi Server with the address and account your administrator gives you.
• Share a matter: Matter ▸ Share on LitArbi Server… uploads the open matter (exhibits, numbers, notes, collections, people, chronology, full text and files). You become its owner and add colleagues under Matter ▸ Members & Access… (owner / editor / viewer). The new-matter wizard can share right away.
• Open a colleague's matter: File ▸ Open Shared Matter… copies it to this Mac with its files.
• Working together: every Mac keeps a full working copy and works offline; changes travel both ways every few seconds. When two people change the same exhibit, both changes are kept field by field; where both changed the same field, one value wins on every computer and the other is logged. New exhibits get IDs that are unique across the team, so citations in a brief edited by two people keep pointing at the right exhibit. Exhibit numbers are handed out under a short team lock — two people citing new exhibits at the same moment never both get C-13; if it happens offline, LitArbi warns after the next sync.
• A cloud in front of every exhibit of a shared matter shows where it stands: grey with a check — on the server; orange with an arrow up — only on this Mac so far (new, or changed while offline), waiting to be sent; blue with an arrow down — on the server, file not downloaded to this Mac yet.
• The footer shows the state: Shared · up to date / syncing / offline — 3 changes waiting / view only. Matter ▸ Sync Now and Stop Sharing on This Mac… are in the Matter menu.
• Settings: the placeholder Storage and Users & Permissions tabs are gone — users and access are managed on the server (Administration in the browser).

Universal, notarized. Shared matters need LitArbi Server 1.0. Matters on this Mac only are unchanged.

Paris, twenty-ninth build — About LitArbi, as on Windows.

• LitArbi ▸ About LitArbi now shows the same dialog as LitArbi for Windows: version and build, architecture (Apple Silicon native, or Intel), macOS version, window background (Liquid Glass, or solid with Reduce Transparency), and the licence holder — with Copy Details for support requests and a link to litarbi.app. It opens from the menu even when no matter is open, and from Help in Word's LitArbi tab.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-eighth build — the exhibit number before or after the description.

• Settings ▸ Citation ▸ Exhibit number: Before the description — "Exhibit C-3, Excerpt from WhatsApp Chat, dated 11 July 2026, p. 4" (as before) — or After the description — "Excerpt from WhatsApp Chat, dated 11 July 2026 (Exhibit C-3), p. 4". Pinpoints stay at the end, the number stays bold, and it applies to exhibits, legal authorities, awards and witness/expert statements alike (German matters: "Kaufvertrag vom 5. Mai 2020 (Anlage K 1)"). Short citations ("Exhibit C-3, p. 4") have nothing to put the number behind and stay as they are; a custom template that already places the number elsewhere is left alone. Run Update Exhibits to switch the citations already in your brief; the Word add-in export follows the setting too.
• The hyperlinked submission in the e-bundle understands the new form: "(Exhibit C-3), p. 4" still opens page 4.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-seventh build — wrapped footnote lines line up.

• Footnotes get a hanging indent. A LitArbi footnote that runs over two lines now continues under the text, not under the footnote number: the space + tab after the number goes to a hanging indent at your document's default tab stop, and every following line starts there too — whatever the document's own footnote style says. Your own footnotes are never changed; existing LitArbi footnotes pick up the indent with the next Update Exhibits. (Settings ▸ Citation ▸ "a space and a tab after the footnote number" switches the layout off.)

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-sixth build — one document, one exhibit number.

• The same document cited under two numbers is caught. When a PDF was imported twice (say C-9 and C-11 — same title and date, or an identical file) and the brief cites both, Update Exhibits now says "C-9 and C-11 are the same document" and offers Cite C-9 throughout (ticked). A document that merely exists twice in the matter but is cited once is no longer flagged. And it stops at the source: citing C-11 when C-9 is already cited in that document asks first — Cite C-9, Cite as a Separate Exhibit, or Cancel — in the ribbon's Cite and in the citation pane alike.
• Highlights explain themselves. Every highlighted citation in the Word document is followed by a short note in the same colour — "[LitArbi: same document as Exhibit C-9 — cited under two numbers]", "[LitArbi: this exhibit was deleted from the matter]", … Notes and highlights are removed and re-checked on every update, so they disappear once the problem is fixed; your own text and highlights are never touched.
• Footnote layout as in your briefs: one space and one tab after the footnote number, and a closing period (Settings ▸ Citation can turn either off). Citing into an existing footnote puts the new citation before the period. Update Exhibits brings existing footnotes into this layout.
• Narrower List of Exhibits: single-spaced rows without the extra paragraph spacing your document's style added inside the table.
• Fix: a footnote with two LitArbi citations could be read as having only its first (the hidden citation markers came back glued together), which could drop the second one on update and get first/short citation forms wrong.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-fifth build — no more strange footnotes after removing an exhibit.

• "It seems that the exhibit has been moved or deleted." Update Exhibits (and relinking after a bundle) now checks every citation in the brief first. When a cited exhibit is in LitArbi's Trash, has been merged into another exhibit, has been deleted, or its file is no longer where LitArbi expects it, a dialog lists each one with the footnotes that cite it — and the fix LitArbi can offer: Restore it from the Trash, Cite C-1 instead (the exhibit it was merged into, or an identical copy that is still there), or Show it.
• Suspected duplicates are flagged too: when the same document is cited under two exhibit numbers, or a cited exhibit has an identical or probable twin, the dialog says so ("Don't flag these duplicates again" if they're intentional).
• Highlighted in the Word document: the affected citations are marked in the brief itself — yellow for a moved or deleted exhibit, turquoise for a suspected duplicate — so you can find them at a glance. "Only Highlight in Word" marks them without updating anything. A mark disappears with the next Update once the problem is fixed.
• Fix: a deleted exhibit's citation no longer vanishes or turns into a stale number. Update used to drop it silently from a footnote with other citations, or leave its old number standing where another exhibit could take it. The citation now stays exactly as it was, highlighted, until you replace or remove it (Edit & Manage Citations). A merged exhibit's citation no longer turns its attachment into a numbered exhibit.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-fourth build — citations copied between footnotes stay linked.

• Fix: a citation copied from one footnote into another lost its link to LitArbi. Word never copies LitArbi's hidden citation marker when you copy and paste, so the copy was invisible: pasted into a footnote that already held a citation, the next Update Exhibits (or relinking after a bundle) rewrote that footnote and deleted the pasted citation; pasted anywhere else, it was never renumbered and never relinked to the bundle. LitArbi now recognises every citation by the citation itself — its link to the exhibit's file, or the exhibit number or submission name it shows — so pasted citations are renumbered, relinked and tracked like all the others. In a footnote with your own words ("See also …"), only the citation is updated; your text is never rewritten. A footnote whose citation can't be matched to an exhibit is left untouched and named in the status line.
• Fix: the Bundle Wizard and the e-brief could miss exhibits. They offered only what the main window's sidebar or search happened to show; they now always start from the whole matter (as the citation pane has since 0.9.21).

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-third build — pinpoints for every document, and a submission that opens each exhibit at the cited page.

• Cite asks for the pinpoint for every document, not only authorities and submissions: ¶ first for witness statements, expert reports, authorities and submissions; page first for factual documents. Press Return to cite without one.
• Fix: a typed pinpoint could vanish. Expert reports use the exhibit template, which only has a page slot, so a paragraph typed for a report was silently dropped; the German presets had no slot at all. An entered pinpoint now always appears — ¶/p., Rz./S. or par./p. in the matter's convention — and survives Update Exhibits.
• Bundle Wizard ▸ Output ▸ Choose Submission PDF… — pick your submission as a PDF (exported from Word). The bundle then contains a copy in which every citation of a bundled exhibit is a link: a page citation opens the exhibit on that page; a ¶ citation opens it scrolled to the paragraph, found by its number in the exhibit's text (a table of contents doesn't fool it). The links are relative, so submission and bundle stay clickable when the folder is moved, zipped or sent to the tribunal — the standard remote links Adobe Acrobat and Reader follow.
• In Word, a citation's link still opens the exhibit file; the jump to the page lives in the PDF of the submission.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-second build — every exhibit in a bundle becomes a PDF.

• Bundle Wizard: plain text and email files are now converted to PDF too. Until now, only Office documents (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) were converted before stamping — a .txt, .md or .eml file was simply copied into the bundle folder unstamped, in its original format. Every non-PDF exhibit is now converted to PDF (images already were), so it can carry the exhibit stamp like everything else. Audio and video are left exactly as they were — there's no page to stamp, so they're still copied in their native format.
• e-brief: the same files are no longer silently skipped. The hyperlinked e-brief merges every exhibit into one PDF; a text or email exhibit that couldn't be converted was previously left out of the merge without much explanation. It now goes through the same conversion and gets merged in like any other exhibit.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twenty-first build — the citation pane searches the whole matter.

• Fix: Insert Citation could miss exhibits that were right there. The pane's search and its "N items" count were reading the main window's current view — whatever the sidebar or its own search field happened to be filtered to — instead of the whole matter. Narrow the main list to a smart list, a tag or a search term, then open the pane, and anything outside that narrower view was invisible and unfindable, with no indication why. The pane now always searches every exhibit in the matter, independent of whatever the main window is showing.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twentieth build — the table actually spans the page, and a sort-order choice.

• Fix: the table rendered a few dozen points wide. Setting each column's width as a percentage worked only against the table's own overall width — which Word leaves at 0pt / "auto" until told otherwise. Every list inserted since 0.9.18 was computing 17/58/25% of that near-nothing, so the table squeezed itself down to a sliver and every word wrapped one letter per line. The table is now explicitly spanned to the full text column first, then divided into its three columns — the bug this build fixes existed since the table format shipped.
• Sort order, your choice. Submission ▸ List of Exhibits now asks, each time you insert it, whether to sort By Appearance (the exhibit-number order — the default, unchanged) or By Date (every section chronologically by the document's date, undated documents last). The choice is remembered for the matter, so Update Exhibits from Brief reapplies it silently without asking again. Works in both the table and the plain-list format.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, nineteenth build — roomier, and grouped into sections.

• Less cramped. The table now has breathing room above and below every row (Word's own new-table default is none), and the Exhibit No. and Date columns are a little wider so headers and typical entries stop wrapping onto a second line.
• Sections by exhibit type. The list now groups into headed sections — Witness Statements, Expert Reports, Legal Authorities, Correspondence, and so on — each its own table, in that order, sorted the same way inside each (party series, then number, both sides together). The plain exhibits lead the list unlabelled; only the more specific categories that are actually present get a heading. Settings ▸ Citation ▸ List of Exhibits ▸ Group into sections by exhibit type turns this off for the previous single flat table.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, eighteenth build — the List of Exhibits is a real table.

• A genuine Word table. Submission ▸ List of Exhibits (and Insert List of Exhibits in Word's LitArbi tab) now inserts a proper three-column table — Exhibit No. · Description · Date — instead of tab-indented paragraphs. The exhibit number is bold in the header; column widths are set so the description gets the room. File-less means of evidence (witnesses, inspections…) still follow as plain paragraphs underneath, since a table row doesn't fit "Witness: Jane Doe, 10 Main St" any better than a line does.
• A format option. Settings ▸ Citation ▸ List of Exhibits lets you choose Table or the previous plain-paragraph list, and, for the table, Grid (visible borders) or Plain (no borders), and whether the header row is bold. Switching the setting and running Update Exhibits from Brief rebuilds an already-inserted list in the new form.
• Works in every convention: the header reads "Exhibit No.", "Anlage-Nr.", "Beilage-Nr." or "N° de pièce" depending on the matter's jurisdiction, matching the term already used everywhere else.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, seventeenth build — the ribbon reshuffled.

Four tabs, every command exactly once (OCR, Translate, Open, Print, People and Chronology used to appear twice; Merge sat under Home):

• Home — Add (Add ▾, Import) · Exhibit (Edit, Tags, Include, No cite, Lock, Star, Delete) · Cite (Cite, Pane = the Insert Citation pane, Copy citation) · Layout (Sidebar, Inspector). The list work and citing.
• Document — View (Open, Reveal, Print ▾) · Pages (Edit Pages, Split, Merge) · Language (OCR, Translate, Transcribe, AI Read, Summarize) · Protect (Clean, Redact, e-Sign ▾). Everything about the selected file.
• Submission — Brief (Word Doc, List, Update from brief, Manage citations, Plain Text) · Export (Export Word) · Produce (Bundle, e-Brief, Sign). The brief in Word and the filing.
• Matter — Numbering (Auto-no., Bates) · Insights (Chronology, People, Duplicates, Protocol) · Library (Cases, Collection, Export CSV, Report, Settings). The matter as a whole.
• Usage unchanged.

Star, the citation pane, Copy Citation, Summarize, Update from Brief, Manage Citations and Report gain ribbon buttons; the Tools tab is gone (its contents live in Document and Matter). Menus and keyboard shortcuts are unchanged.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, sixteenth build — split after import.

• Split PDF into Exhibits… (after import). Until now a long PDF could only be cut into separate documents at import time. Exhibit ▸ Document ▸ Split PDF into Exhibits… (also in the right-click Document submenu and the Document tab's PDF pages group) opens the same scissors view for an exhibit that is already in the matter: click between pages to cut, and each range comes in as a new exhibit through the usual import review, inheriting the original's type, creator, party, custodian and tags, named "… (pp. 12–18)" until you rename it. The original stays until you choose to trash it; its attachments — translations, notes — stay with it.
• Detach Attachment as Exhibit. A translation or file filed under an exhibit can become a separate, unnumbered exhibit again: select it and use Exhibit ▸ Detach Attachment as Exhibit (or right-click ▸ Organize). The reverse of Add Attachment and Merge; notes stay where they are.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, fifteenth build — first and subsequent citations decided per document.

• Short form only after a first citation in the same document. Whether an exhibit gets its full citation or the short one used to depend on a matter-wide memory: once cited anywhere, ever, it was short everywhere after — so a new brief, or a re-insertion after you deleted the first citation, came out short with nothing to refer back to. LitArbi now reads the citation bookmarks of the Word document it is citing into (footnotes included) and uses the full form for the first citation in that document and the short form afterwards. Deleting a citation makes the next one full again. Only when Word cannot be asked (Copy Citation without Word) does the old memory decide.
• Awards and decisions keep their case name in the short form. A subsequent citation of an award reads "Exhibit CL-12, Kılıç v. Turkmenistan, ¶ 12" instead of a bare "Exhibit CL-12", so a footnote still says what is cited. Editable in Settings ▸ Citation ▸ Awards & decisions — subsequent (short); reports and other authorities keep the built-in short form ("Exhibit CER-4, ¶ 8").

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, fourteenth build — a citation is never italic as a whole.

• Fix: whole citation in italics. A citation inserted into Word takes on the formatting of its surroundings — the character style Word gives hyperlink results, or the italic of the text just before it. In a document whose Hyperlink style is italic, the entire citation came out italic (and "Exhibit CL-7" bold-italic). Every inserted citation is now reset to regular, upright text first and then carries exactly two styled spans: the exhibit number in bold, the case name in italics. The "; " that joins a second citation to an existing footnote is reset the same way.
• Fix: Split View showed LitArbi as a frozen blur. Tiling LitArbi beside Word (full screen, side by side) left the LitArbi half blurred and the divider stuck. The ribbon's expanded groups dictated a minimum window width of about 1400 pt; a narrower tile was snapped back and macOS displayed the window's last image as a blur. The ribbon now collapses its groups into dropdowns for whatever width the tile gives it (as it already did when you dragged slowly), the panes' minimums are slimmer (sidebar 230, list 380, inspector 300), and the window tells macOS its true minimum (912 pt wide), so tiles and divider drags stop there instead of fighting.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, thirteenth build — case names in italics, and a pinpoint before every authority citation.

• Case names are cited in italics. When an award or decision is cited into Word, its case name (Burlington Resources Inc. v. Republic of Ecuador) is set in italics, as the citation convention requires, while the rest — ICSID Case No. ARB/08/5, Decision on Jurisdiction, 2 June 2010, ¶ 123 — stays upright and the exhibit number stays bold. The name comes from the Case (short) field when filled in; otherwise LitArbi takes the "X v. Y" part before the first comma of the title. Nothing to format by hand.
• Better {case} fallback. With Case (short) empty and the case number or decision type filled in, {case} now renders only the case-name part of the title instead of repeating the whole title in front of the case number.
• Pinpoint prompt. Cite and Copy Citation on an authority (or a submission cited by name) now first ask for the paragraphs and pages — one row per citation, Enter to cite, both empty to cite without a pinpoint. Factual exhibits keep the one-click flow; the Insert Citation pane keeps its own pinpoint fields.
• ¶¶ / pp. for ranges. "123–125", "3, 7" or "12 ff." render as ¶¶ / paras. / pp.; Update Exhibits from Brief reads those back.
• Italics are applied on every path that writes a citation: footnote, inline link, Update Exhibits from Brief, bundle and e-brief rewrites, and the Insert Citation pane.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, twelfth build — the menu bar regrouped, and dates that aren't dates.

• Date column sorts by the date a value names. A typed date the app could not accept — 29.02.2010 (2010 had no 29 February), "13 Januray 2010", "May 2022" — was kept as typed and then sorted as a number, so it floated to the top of the list. Such values now sort by the year, month and day they name (29 February 2010 sits between 28 February and 1 March 2010; a misspelt month still finds its month), and they are shown in red in the list and in the inspector's Date field, with a hint on hover, so the typo can be fixed.
• File is back to the document verbs: matters (New, Clients & Matters, Recent), new items (Exhibit, Evidence, Note, Collection, Legal Authority, Attachment), then Import ▸ and Export ▸ submenus, Show in Finder / View Online, Print, Close. Sixteen entries in six groups instead of thirty-three in ten.
• Exhibit holds what you do to the selected exhibits: edit (Edit Exhibit…, Rename, Edit Tags…, Find & Replace), flags (Include, Do Not Cite, Star, Lock), then the same four families as the right-click menu — Numbering ▸, Document ▸ (Open, Edit PDF Pages…, Redact…, Clean Metadata…, Read Subject & Date, Detect Language), AI & Language ▸ (OCR, Translate, Summarize, Read Handwriting, Transcribe) and Sign ▸ — then Duplicate / Merge / Undo Merge and the trash commands.
• Submission (new) collects everything that touches the brief in Word: Insert Citation… (⇧⌘C, the docked pane), Cite into Word (auto / full / short), Copy Citation, Insert Evidence Offer, Insert List of Exhibits, Choose Word Document…, Update Exhibits from Brief, Edit & Manage Citations…, Convert Citations to Plain Text…, Reset Award Citations…, Export for Word…, and the Produce commands (Bundle Exhibits…, Create e-Brief…, Signature Block, e-Sign Submission PDF…).
• Matter keeps the matter as a whole: Rename, Case Settings, Protect with Password; Chronology, People, Detect Events & People, Deadlines, Calendar sync; Find Duplicates, Translation & AI Protocol, Generate Report; Exhibit Files Location, Organize Exhibit Files, Restore from Backup. The duplicated New Matter / Clients & Matters entries are gone (they live in File).
• Edit ▸ Find (⌘F) focuses the search field. Twenty-three ribbon and right-click commands that had no menu entry now have one; every shortcut is unique.

Universal, notarized. No data changes (typed dates stay exactly as typed).

Paris, eleventh build — the citation pane docks beside Word.

• Insert Citation is a pane, not a window. Opened from the Word ribbon it now sits on the right edge of the Word document window like Word's own Styles pane: it follows the window when you move or resize it, appears and disappears with Word's Space (full-screen Word included), and stays hidden while Word is minimized or on another desktop. It has no title bar of its own — just the title, ⤢ Float and a close button.
• Word keeps the focus. The pane never activates LitArbi, so the ribbon button no longer swaps you into LitArbi's full-screen Space. After Insert the cursor goes back to the draft.
• Ribbon alignment. Word cannot report where its ribbon ends, so the pane starts 150 pt below the top of the window; drag the pane's top edge once to align it under your ribbon (and its bottom edge above the status bar) — LitArbi remembers both.
• ⤢ Float turns it back into the ordinary palette; ⇥ Dock re-attaches it. Docked is the default.
• Fix: the picker could stretch across the whole screen when an exhibit title was longer than the column (Auto Layout outranked the window size). Titles now truncate; Zoom and window tiling keep the palette size.
• Word add-in: the ribbon macro now opens the citation URL in the background. Rebuild LitArbi.dotm from the updated LitArbiRibbon.bas and reinstall it (LitArbi ▸ Settings ▸ Word) so the first click doesn't bounce through LitArbi; until then the pane hands the focus back to Word itself.

Universal, notarized. No data changes (the pane geometry lives in the app preferences).

Paris, tenth build — OCR in the context menu.

• Run OCR… is now in the exhibit list's right-click menu (AI & Language submenu, first entry), next to Translate, Summarize, Read Handwriting and Transcribe. It was missing from the menu since the beginning.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, ninth build — nine small quality-of-life additions.

• Smart Lists in the sidebar: Included in submission, Do not cite, Unnumbered, Needs OCR (PDFs and images without text) and Not translated. They combine with search and tags like any other source and are what you check before filing.
• Counts on every sidebar row. Exhibit types, languages and smart lists show their document count, as Duplicates and Trash already did.
• Footer with selection. The list footer adds "2 selected · 1 included" while something is selected, so a multi-selection before Merge, Translate or Print is verifiable at a glance.
• Reopen where you left. Each matter remembers the last selected exhibit and its preview page and restores them when opened again.
• Escape clears the search and returns the focus to the exhibit list.
• Tag colour dots in the list's Tags column, matching the colours assigned in the sidebar.
• Drop files on the Dock icon (or "Open with LitArbi") to import them into the open matter through the usual review sheet.
• Recent matters from the Dock. Right-click the LitArbi icon in the Dock (or open File ▸ Recent Matters) for the last eight matters, newest first, the open one ticked, plus Clients & Matters….
• Type an exhibit number to jump. With the list focused, typing "C-12" or "c12" selects that exhibit; typing a title prefix still works.

Universal, notarized. No data changes (the remembered selection lives in the matter's settings).

Paris, eighth build — a colourful sidebar.

• Sidebar icons in colour. Like the Finder and Mail sidebars, every source now has its own filled symbol and colour: All Documents (blue tray), Starred (yellow star), Duplicates (orange), Trash (grey), collections (teal folders), languages (mint). Exhibit types are told apart at a glance: Factual Exhibit (blue document), Witness Statement (green person), Expert and Quantum Report (teal chart), Correspondence (indigo envelope), Pleading / Submission (purple), Legal Authority and Journal Article (brown books), Award and Decision (red rosette / gavel), Procedural Order (orange list), Demonstrative (pink), means of evidence (green). Custom types keep a grey icon. All colours are system colours and adapt to dark mode.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, seventh build — the AI summary is seen right away.

• AI summary first. When an exhibit has an AI-generated summary, the inspector's Info tab shows it at the top of the Abstract row in a tinted block (with model and date), above your own abstract. "Use as Abstract" copies it into the abstract for editing, keeping any existing text below; "More…" opens the Summary tab with the full text and the regenerate button. The summary itself stays separate, so regenerating never duplicates text in your notes.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, sixth build — a tidier context menu, a leaner Home ribbon, a visible sidebar selection, a Zotero-style tag filter, and a toolbar-native quota chip.

• Context menu regrouped. The exhibit list's right-click menu had grown to 35 flat entries. The everyday actions stay at the top level (Open, Show in Finder, Cite into Word, Copy Citation, Include, Do Not Cite, Lock, Rename, Move to Trash); everything else moved into six submenus: Add (note, attachment, collection, tags), Cite (full/short form, export for Word), Document (open in new tab, view online, edit PDF pages, read subject & date, detect language, print, export, report), AI & Language (translate, summarize, read handwriting, transcribe), Sign and Organize (duplicate, merge, find & replace). Nothing was removed; Print Document… was added.
• Quota chip. In the window toolbar on macOS 26 the chip drew its own tinted pill inside the toolbar's glass capsule (a pill in a pill) and could shorten its text. The chip is now plain icon and text inside the capsule, slightly larger, and never truncates. On macOS 14/15 it keeps its pill.

• Home ribbon. Three logical groups instead of one 14-icon row: Add (Add ▾, Import), Exhibit (Edit, Tags, Include, No cite, Lock, Merge, Delete) and Document (Open, Print ▾). New exhibit, new evidence and the other imports live in Add ▾; search is the toolbar field.
• Sidebar selection. The chosen source (All Documents, Starred, a collection, an exhibit type, a language…) stays highlighted; it used to vanish after every refresh.
• Tag filter. A "Filter Tags" field under the tag list narrows it as you type (as in Zotero); the funnel menu switches between all tags of the matter and only the tags of the documents currently listed, and clears the selection. Ticked tags always stay visible.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, fifth build — a fix for the inspector's Tags tab.

• Tags tab. The tag field collapsed to a tiny stub and its help text ran off the pane, so tags could not be typed comfortably. The field now spans the inspector width and the help text wraps. Typing tags and pressing return (or comma) stores them on the exhibit as before.

Universal, notarized. No data changes.

Paris, fourth build — search scope and the document's original language.

• Search scope. The magnifier menu of the toolbar search field now offers Titles only, Titles & details (title, creator, custodian, notes, address) and Full text (incl. OCR). The choice is remembered, the placeholder says what is searched, and the result snippet comes from the matching field (the title in title mode).
• Original language. Every document carries its original language (English, German, Turkish, …), detected on this Mac from the extracted or OCR'd text at import, after OCR, after an AI read and after page edits — nothing is sent anywhere. Set or correct it in the inspector's Info tab (your choice always wins over detection); Exhibit ▸ Detect Document Language re-detects for the selection. The list has a Language column, the sidebar a Languages group to filter the matter by language, and the CSV index export and shared-matter manifests carry it.

Universal, notarized. One new items column (language); existing matters are detected lazily as their text is touched, or all at once via Detect Document Language.

Paris, third build — merge exhibits that belong together.

• Merge Exhibits. Select two or more exhibits and choose Exhibit ▸ Merge Exhibits… (⌥⌘M), the ribbon's Merge button, or the context menu. Pick which exhibit to keep: it retains its number, title and file; the others become its attachments (inspector ▸ Files), and their own attachments, notes, tags, people, references, collections and timeline entries move to it. Empty fields of the kept exhibit (party, custodian, date, type…) are filled from the absorbed ones; a note records where each absorbed note came from.
• Combine PDF pages. Tick "Also combine the PDF pages into one document" to append the other exhibits' pages to the kept PDF (for a scan that arrived as several files). The separate files stay as attachments; the searchable text covers all pages.
• Undo. Exhibit ▸ Undo Last Merge puts everything back — rows, numbers, flags, relations, and the PDF from before the pages were combined (a copy is kept in the matter folder until the merge is undone or the next merge happens).
• Guards. Locked exhibits, notes and attachments are refused; the dialog warns when an absorbed exhibit is numbered or included in the submission, because footnotes citing it need Update Exhibits from Brief afterwards.
• Duplicates window. "Merge Selected…" for probable duplicates that turn out to be two halves of one document.
• Fix. Edit Pages could fail with "Couldn’t replace the managed copy" when the exhibit files live on another volume than the boot disk (external exhibit storage); the edited file is now staged on the same volume before the swap.

Universal, notarized. No schema change (the undo record lives in the matter's settings).

Paris, second build — a record of every AI operation, printing, and a marker for AI summaries.

• Translation & AI protocol. Every translation, AI summary and AI read is now recorded in the matter: when, which document, which provider and model, language, how much text, how long, who ran it, and the outcome (done / error / cancelled). Open it from Tools ▸ Recognize ▸ Protocol or Matter ▸ Translation & AI Protocol… (⌥⌘L), filter by kind, jump to the document, export it as CSV or print it for the file. Entries are written from this version on.
• Print the document list. File ▸ Print Document List… (⇧⌘P) or the ribbon's Print ▾ prints the list as shown (source, filter and sort applied) as a paginated table with number, title, date, type, pages, party and marks (used, do not cite, locked, translated, AI summary), headed by the matter name and date.
• Print a document. File ▸ Print Document… (⌘P) prints what the preview shows — the exhibit or the attachment picked under Files. PDFs print through PDFKit (scaled to fit, auto-rotated); images, RTF translations, text and Word files print directly; anything else is handed to its own application.
• AI-summary marker. Exhibits with an AI-generated summary carry a ✦ in the list (tooltip: model and date) and the Summary tab now states that the text is AI-generated and names the model and date.

Universal, notarized. Database gains one table (ai_log); no changes to existing data.

Paris — the workspace chrome now follows the current macOS Human Interface Guidelines (Liquid Glass on macOS 26 "Tahoe", the equivalent native look on macOS 14 and 15).

• Unified window toolbar. The ribbon tabs (Home · Tools · Document · Usage), the translation-quota chip and the full-text search field moved into a real macOS toolbar next to the traffic lights. On macOS 26 they float as Liquid Glass controls; on 14/15 they are the standard unified toolbar. The empty title-bar row is gone, so the exhibit list gets the space back.
• One chrome surface. Toolbar and ribbon panel share the same material with no separator line between them, in light and dark mode.
• Floating page tools. The tools bar over the PDF preview is a Liquid Glass panel on macOS 26 and a translucent material below.
• Native inspector. The right-hand detail pane is a system inspector split item (material, divider and collapse behaviour as in Apple's apps).
• Appearance-safe colours. Ribbon group titles, button hover/pressed/on tints and the quota chip label re-resolve on every light/dark switch instead of keeping the colour they were built with (the last low-contrast leftover after an automatic switch around sleep).
• Continuous (squircle) corners on cards and buttons; inset list style in the Duplicates window.

Compatibility: unchanged deployment target (macOS 14.0), universal (Apple silicon + Intel), notarized. No data or file-format changes.

Appearance fix: the floating page-tools bar over the PDF preview kept the colour of the appearance it was created in, so after an automatic light/dark switch (typically around sleep) it sat as an opaque dark box on a white page. It is now a real translucent material that follows the appearance; the Usage cards and the quota chip re-resolve their colours the same way. Notarized universal build.

Faster titling. (1) Detected titles now read “Letter from AA to BB re Subject”: sender from the signature block or letterhead, addressee from the address block or salutation, the subject only appended — names from the matter’s People list are preferred; German and French matters get “Schreiben von … an …” / “Lettre de … à …”. Applies on import and to Exhibit ▸ Read Subject & Date; Settings ▸ General can switch back to subject-only titles. (2) Rename in place: Return, F2 or ⌘R edits the title in the list; Tab commits and jumps to the next exhibit, Shift-Tab to the previous, Esc cancels. (3) Exhibit ▸ Find & Replace in Titles… (⌥⌘R) fixes a pattern across the selection. Organized storage renames the files along. Notarized universal build.

Translation pre-flight estimate: the Translate dialog now shows how many characters and parts the job will send, the estimated cost at the selected model's list price, and the expected time from your own previous runs — and warns when a DeepL job exceeds the remaining quota. The Usage tab's hint line is fully visible again. Notarized universal build.

OpenAI translations were not failing — they were slow: gpt-5-mini reasons before answering and spent 40–70 seconds and twice the input in tokens on every 6 000-character part, with no visible progress. Translation now asks the gpt-5 models for low reasoning effort (a few seconds per part, far cheaper), the status line shows the part number, model and elapsed time, Matter ▸ Cancel Translation stops a long run, and every finished translation is logged with its duration. Notarized universal build.

Geneva — duplicate detection. Identical files are recognised by content hash, probable twins by title or near-identical text with the same page count. A Duplicates view in the sidebar, an orange badge in the exhibit list, a warning in the import review ("identical file already in this matter", skipped by default) and Tools ▸ Duplicates to trash the extras in two clicks. Releases now carry a name; this one is Geneva. Notarized universal build.