How to Upload Your Documents

Last updated: August 20, 2026

In this article: How to upload files to your case in Phaselaw and track their processing status.

Uploading files

To upload documents to your case, click the upload icon in the top toolbar. You can either:

  • Drag and drop files anywhere on the page directly into the case

  • Click Add Files or Add Folder to browse and select files from your device

Once files are dropped in, they upload and process automatically. You'll see the upload complete in the list.

If you want to clear the upload list after uploading a large batch, click Clear- this won't delete the files, it just removes them from the upload view.

Tracking your uploads

Once uploaded, your files are visible across three tabs in the case:

  • Documents: individual files ready for review

  • Emails: email files (.eml, .msg) extracted and ready for review

  • Archives: .zip, .mbox and .pst files

The Archives tab

The Archives tab gives you a detailed view of any ZIP files or containers you've uploaded. For each archive you can see:

  • The name of the file

  • The total number of files inside it

  • File size

  • Who uploaded it and when

  • How many files were extracted (added to the case)

  • How many were duplicates (already in the case, not added again)

  • How many were unsupported or landed in an error state

  • Processing status- files move through the following stages as they're processed: Analyzing (files are being scanned for content), and Ready (files are available for review).

Once all files have finished analyzing, the processing status will update to complete.

If any files in your archive aren't supported, you'll see an option to download a list of unsupported files as a CSV so you can handle them separately.

Filtering your uploads

If multiple people are uploading to the same case, you can filter the Archives tab by uploader to see just your uploads — or filter by status to focus on files still processing or in an error state.

What file types can I upload?

Phaselaw supports four categories of files:

Archives

.pst
.mbox
.zip

Documents

.pdf 
.doc 
.docx
.rtf 
.odt 
.xls 
.xlsx
.xlsm
.ppt 
.pptx 
.txt 
.csv 
.html  
.json

Emails

.msg 
.eml

Images

.jpg 
.jpeg 
.jp2 
.png 
.tif 
.tiff 
.heic