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Terms of Service

Last updated: November 13, 2026

Keypoint Legal Intelligence (“Keypoint”) is a division of Pen and Key, LLC (“Pen and Key,” “we,” or “us”). These Terms of Service govern your use of the Keypoint website and subscriptions.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, subscribing, or otherwise using the Keypoint website and services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. You must accept these Terms before an account is opened for you. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you may not use our services.

2. Description of Service

Keypoint is a current-awareness service that provides concise summaries of new decisions from the courts identified below. It is not a research database of earlier decisions and is not a substitute for a legal research service.

Each summary includes a citation with an explanatory parenthetical (the “Keypoint”), a short statement of the facts and procedural history, the court’s holding or ruling, a practitioner takeaway, and a link to the original opinion. Every plan includes the same courts: a Key Pass covers one chosen practice area, and the other plans cover all 15. Summaries are delivered through the website to subscribers, and to the people covered by a team’s Firm Key Pass or Golden Key Pass, whose plan covers the decision’s practice area. A link we send by email may also open one particular summary, without a subscription, for anyone who has the link.

Daily email updates are on by default for members. We preserve an existing choice to turn them off, including an unsubscribe, until you choose to turn them back on. Daily delivery requires an active membership, a confirmed sign-in email address, your name and role, enabled email delivery, and new decisions or matches your membership covers. Daily delivery does not require acceptance of the current Terms or Privacy Policy, and updates to either document do not pause daily emails. You must still accept the current versions before using protected website features. Each Keypoint-branded daily email has a Manage daily emails link to Alerts and morning email, where you can untick Email me new decisions each morning and click Save email settings. Each email also has a separate unsubscribe link. A Firm Key Pass or Golden Key Pass member may choose the weekly team summary on Monday mornings; that weekly email is off by default and has its own setting and unsubscribe link. Weekly email delivery still requires acceptance of the current Terms and Privacy Policy.

Federal decisions appear in the morning email, saved searches, judge and attorney pages, folders, Word downloads, audio briefings, and team tools under the same practice-area access rules as Michigan decisions.

We may publish short public case excerpts with case information and links to court documents. At a source-proven professional address we authorize, an attorney named in a verified case may receive a direct MailRush email identifying the court and opinion date, linking to Keypoint's case summary, and offering one free calendar month of Key Pass with a practice area from that case preselected. Before accepting, the attorney may choose any one of the 15 supported practice areas and select courts for daily emails. A factual press-release draft is included only when independent review of the complete judicial source confirms that the attorney's party obtained favorable relief in that decision. The offer may be sent without a draft when independent review confirms that the attorney's party was not on the winning side. Any draft is for the attorney to review against the original decision before adapting it for a blog, social media or other promotional materials. A limited or procedural ruling is described with its actual limits, and no draft promises future results. A weekly roundup of public case previews requires its own separately confirmed choice.

3. Practice Areas and Topics

Keypoint uses the following 15 practice areas. A Key Pass covers one chosen area; Master Key Pass, Student Master Key Pass, Firm Key Pass and Golden Key Pass cover all 15:

A decision may appear in more than one practice area when its material issues support those classifications. Criminal conviction or sentence challenges remain within Criminal Law and may also appear in Habeas Corpus & Postconviction Relief. Immigration cases belong in Immigration & Nationality and are excluded from Habeas Corpus & Postconviction Relief, including immigration-detention habeas proceedings. They may retain other supported practice areas and the Habeas Corpus (§ 2241) topic. A criminal postconviction decision does not become an immigration case merely because it mentions immigration consequences. Prisoner civil-rights and prison-conditions claims are not automatically criminal postconviction matters.

Topic labels identify narrower issues, including procedural subjects, within the decisions your membership covers. Practice-area and topic filters narrow your results; they do not grant access outside your membership. Categories and topics are organizational aids and do not establish that a decision applies to your particular matter.

The expanded categories do not change which courts Keypoint covers. Keypoint does not directly cover immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, bankruptcy courts or bankruptcy appellate panels, Social Security administrative law judges, or the Federal Circuit.

Administrative Law and Tax Law now appear separately. Any earlier Administrative & Tax membership or stored preference remains recognizable while existing records are transitioned; it is not a separate new category offered at checkout. Current membership prices, named-user limits and device limits are unchanged by this reorganization.

4. Decisions Covered

Keypoint is designed to include the following decisions when they are available from its sources, fall within one of its 15 practice areas, and pass its checks:

Supreme Court bare orders, certiorari grants or denials without a merits opinion, emergency and stay orders, standalone writings about orders or emergency applications, in-chambers opinions, and standalone concurrences or dissents are outside the intended coverage. Standalone Sixth Circuit concurrences or dissents and routine administrative orders are also outside the intended coverage.

District-court coverage excludes routine scheduling, extensions, discovery administration, unreasoned minute entries, and other orders without substantive legal reasoning. A magistrate judge’s report and recommendation alone is excluded unless the source establishes its adoption by the district court and supplies the adopted reasoning.

5. Sources and Limits on Coverage

The complete opinion PDF is the sole source for the case’s identity, court, decision date, docket number, publication status, citations, procedural history, facts, reasoning, and outcome. Release-email text, search results, feed dates, docket metadata, and PDF filenames are discovery aids only. If the PDF does not establish a required detail, Keypoint does not fill that gap from those other sources; the decision may be withheld for review. The exceptions are separately sourced counsel and an actual lower-court judge, where the case and lower-court relationship can be verified.

Keypoint finds Michigan Supreme Court and Michigan Court of Appeals opinions through the courts’ release emails and follows their links to official opinion PDFs. Keypoint searches CourtListener’s opinion collection for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sixth Circuit, and Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, then retrieves each available complete opinion PDF. A federal PDF may be hosted by the court, CourtListener, or the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s GovInfo service. GovInfo also hosts previously discovered documents; its feeds and metadata do not supply facts for new summaries.

The owner may also upload a court opinion PDF when an automated source is unavailable. Keypoint checks the uploaded opinion against the selected court and case number and applies its usual summary and citation checks. When a summary uses an uploaded opinion, its opinion link opens the retained PDF for members who can read that summary. The owner may upload Michigan Court of Appeals or Michigan Supreme Court docket sheets individually or in a batch for selected cases. Keypoint matches the printed court and case number and uses supported counsel names, party associations, bar numbers and applicable lower-court judge names. Members can see the supported attorney and lower-court judge information. The uploaded docket source descriptions, upload dates, locations within the document and notices about docket listings are visible only to the verified Keypoint owner. Surname-first docket names are displayed in first-name-first order with normal capitalization, while the original wording is retained as evidence. Docket sheets do not supply the legal facts, reasoning or result of a summary.

Keypoint depends on those sources to make decisions and readable PDFs available. CourtListener discovery ordinarily looks back 45 days by decision date, subject to the coverage start dates. By default, a run can start up to 50 decisions, make up to 300 AI requests, and read up to eight CourtListener search pages. It stops starting new decisions after 150 minutes and lets an in-progress decision finish; these limits can change. Selected decisions and unprocessed release notices are saved for later runs. A decision posted late, omitted from a source, or beyond a processing limit may be delayed or missed.

Not every decision is summarized. A decision may also be omitted or delayed when its complete opinion cannot be retrieved or read, its source information cannot be verified, it falls outside the coverage described above or the 15 practice areas, or its summary does not pass our quality checks. We do not guarantee that every qualifying decision will be found or summarized, or that any decision will appear within a particular time.

For a Sixth Circuit or Michigan federal district-court decision Keypoint publishes, it may supplement counsel names and party associations from CourtListener’s archived RECAP docket data when the court, full docket number, and case identity can be matched. Each such listing identifies CourtListener RECAP and the retrieval date. The archive may be incomplete or out of date; its attorney listings do not establish who represented a party when the decision was issued or who represents it now. The retrieval date is not a guarantee that the underlying record was current on that date.

Keypoint retains a source for the judge, attorney and lower-court information it displays. Source descriptions may appear with those names, except that uploaded docket source details are visible only to the verified Keypoint owner. The deciding judge and appellate panel come only from the opinion PDF. A separately listed assigned judge from a docket is not used as the deciding judge. Where no source is available, the field reads “Not available.” Missing information does not establish that a judge, attorney, or lower court was absent from the case. Publication status or reporter information may also be unavailable. Keypoint does not invent missing citations or identities.

6. Cases to Watch and Other Lists

Keypoint keeps the Michigan Court of Appeals’ case calls, Michigan Supreme Court’s call notices, and available published U.S. Supreme Court hearing lists and Sixth Circuit argument calendars. It shows information the available documents supply so that a member may follow a case. Federal district-court calendars are not imported. Federal Cases to watch listings do not show counsel from the federal calendars; a calendar that does not provide a detail cannot supply it to the list.

A U.S. Supreme Court summary may also name attorneys listed for argument in the Court’s hearing list, with the list and its date identified as the source. An attorney listed for argument was scheduled to argue; the list does not establish actual appearance, representation when the Court decided the case, or a complete roster of counsel.

These lists are not complete lists of pending cases. A court document may be unavailable, unreadable, incomplete, or out of date; when a new document cannot be read, a previously saved list may remain. A case’s appearance on a list is not a statement that it was argued, or will be decided, on any date.

Members may also follow a case in any of the four covered federal courts by entering its court and full docket number, and may identify it as one of their own cases. A member-entered docket is labeled as such; it is not a verified court listing or verification that the member is counsel of record. Keypoint checks the format but does not verify that the case exists or retrieve its caption, judge, counsel, filings, or schedule from a court docket.

Keypoint matches a followed federal case to summaries it publishes for the same court and full docket number. It does not monitor PACER, CM/ECF, or the court’s live docket, and it does not report every filing or notify you of a decision that Keypoint does not summarize. A matching summary remains subject to your plan’s practice-area access.

Lists of decisions by trial or deciding judge, or by attorney, include only the summaries Keypoint has published, with names as the identified sources supply them. They are not complete lists of a person’s cases or evaluations of any judge or attorney.

7. Accounts

You must provide a valid email address, your full name, and your role (attorney, paralegal, other legal staff, law student, or another student), and keep your password confidential. Each account is for one named person. A Key Pass, Master Key Pass, or Student Master Key Pass covers that one person. A Firm Key Pass covers the subscriber and up to three colleagues, and a Golden Key Pass the subscriber and up to nine colleagues, whom the subscriber adds by name, role, and email address, each signing in to their own account. Each account may be signed in on up to three devices at a time; to use another, you must first sign one of them out. You may not share your account or your sign-in details with anyone else. To enforce these limits, we record the devices and network addresses used with each account, as our Privacy Policy describes, and we may suspend an account that appears to be shared. You are responsible for activity under your account. Please tell us promptly at patrick@keypointlegal.com if you believe your account has been used without your permission.

8. Subscriptions, Payment and Billing

Subscriptions are billed either monthly or annually, as selected at the time of purchase, at the price shown at checkout. Payments are processed securely through our third-party payment processor, Stripe. Pen and Key does not collect or store credit card numbers or bank account details on its servers.

Student Master Key Pass is for current students in high school, undergraduate study, law school, or other postgraduate study. It costs $5 per month or $50 per year and provides the same individual access as Master Key Pass, including all 15 practice areas and all six covered courts, for one named student on up to three devices. Before checkout, you must provide your school name, major field of study, current year of study and student ID number. You must provide accurate student details and keep them current in your profile. Student details are self-reported; a student membership is not a representation that Keypoint has independently verified enrollment.

A Firm Key Pass covers every practice area for up to four people, and a Golden Key Pass for up to ten: the subscriber and the colleagues the subscriber adds on the account page, with any email address. A person on the list has access while signed in to a Keypoint account with that confirmed address, for as long as the subscription is active. Keypoint does not email the people added to invite them. Once a colleague signs in and completes their account, daily updates are on by default for an eligible membership unless the colleague has turned them off; the weekly team-summary email remains a separate choice. The subscriber may remove anyone at any time. Removing someone who never signed in is not limited, but replacing someone who has signed in is limited to two times per subscription year on a Firm Key Pass and four times on a Golden Key Pass; for genuine staff turnover beyond that, contact us. The subscriber is responsible for the people added and for the subscription’s payments, and when the subscription ends, everyone’s access through it ends.

A paid subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, and your payment method is charged for the next period, until you cancel. You may cancel from your account page using Manage billing and subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and access continues until then. The complimentary attorney month described below requires no payment card and does not renew or convert to paid service automatically.

Because of the digital nature of the service, all sales are final. We do not offer refunds or prorated refunds for canceled subscriptions or for any part of a billing period.

If we increase the price of your plan, we will tell you by email before the increased price applies to a renewal.

The displayed student price applies to new subscriptions. Existing student subscriptions retain their agreed price unless we separately notify you of a change before renewal.

9. Complimentary Attorney Month

The personal offer is limited to one free calendar month per attorney, confirmed recipient email and account. The month begins when acceptance is committed, not when the email is sent or opened. The invitation preselects a practice area covered by the verified case. Before accepting, the recipient may choose any one of Keypoint's 15 practice areas instead. The free Key Pass includes all six covered courts and the individual Key Pass features in the selected area. The chosen membership area is fixed when the free month starts. Morning service emails are on by default for that one practice area, subject to the ordinary delivery requirements and any earlier saved settings or unsubscribe. The recipient may choose which covered courts to include in daily emails before accepting and may adjust email courts later under Alerts and morning email. Court email choices do not limit membership access. An explicit court choice updates only the selected area's preferences; earlier daily-email opt-outs and unrelated saved settings remain intact. Expiry uses America/New_York calendar time and clamps month-end dates to the last valid day of the following month. The exact end date and time are shown after acceptance and on the account. Existing paid individual or team access is preserved.

New acceptance also requests up to eight Resend marketing emails: up to five during the final five days, with 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 days remaining, and up to three follow-ups 4, 7 and 14 days after the free month ends if no subscription has been purchased. The final two expiry reminders prominently warn that the Keypoint summaries are about to end. Later follow-ups accurately state that the free access has ended and explain how to subscribe. Each email may invite the recipient to continue with a paid Key Pass or expand to another membership. Scheduled availability and sending limits apply; missed windows are skipped rather than sent together later. Unsubscribe and other sending restrictions stop messages without ending the remaining free access. Purchasing an eligible paid membership stops the campaign; later cancellation does not restart it. Earlier recipients retain their original five-reminder consent and receive no post-expiry follow-ups under that earlier choice. The weekly marketing roundup remains a separate confirmed choice.

No payment card is required for the complimentary month. There is no automatic renewal or charge. At expiry, complimentary access ends unless another valid membership supplies access. Continuing or expanding access requires the recipient to choose a paid plan and complete the existing checkout. Accepting another invitation cannot extend or restart the free month.

11. Not Legal Advice; Accuracy of Summaries

The summaries and materials provided by Keypoint are for informational purposes only. They do not constitute legal advice, nor does the provision of these materials create an attorney-client relationship. Pen and Key, LLC is an independent informational and paralegal staffing company. It is not a law firm, and neither Patrick Kinney nor any other employee, agent, or contractor of Pen and Key, LLC is an attorney.

Keypoint summaries are generated with artificial intelligence. Automated checks reduce errors but cannot eliminate them, so a summary or citation may contain errors or omissions, and the limited nature of each summary may prevent inclusion of every pertinent point contained in a lengthy decision. Summaries are not updated for later developments in a case, such as rehearing, amendment, appeal, reversal, or modification. Keypoint does not provide a citator or show how later decisions have treated an opinion. Check the decision’s later history with a citator before relying on it. Always read the original opinion, linked with every summary, before relying on a decision in any filing, advice, or argument. You remain responsible for your own legal work and professional judgment.

The audio briefing is read by your web browser’s own speech feature, whose voices may mispronounce names and terms; the written summary and the opinion control.

The help assistant on the website also uses artificial intelligence. It answers questions about Keypoint only; its answers may be incomplete or wrong, are not legal advice, and do not change these Terms or the Privacy Policy.

12. Permitted Use

While your subscription, or a Firm Key Pass or Golden Key Pass that covers you, is active, you may read the summaries for your own professional or educational use and copy individual Keypoint citations and parentheticals into documents you prepare in your own practice or studies.

You may download your folders, your team’s folders, and the weekly team summary as Word documents for your own professional or educational use. On a Firm Key Pass or Golden Key Pass, you may share the team’s folders, notes, and weekly summary with the colleagues the plan covers.

Notes written in a team folder are visible to everyone on the team, and the subscriber may remove them. You are responsible for what you write in a note; do not include anything your team should not see.

If you open a summary through a free link we sent, you may read that summary and copy its Keypoint citation and parenthetical in the same way.

Court opinions themselves are public records. The summaries, the Keypoint website, and its design belong to Pen and Key, LLC.

13. Service Availability and Third Parties

Keypoint depends on court websites, case-law providers such as CourtListener, and hosting, email, sign-in, and payment providers. Pen and Key has no control over their operations, policies, or technical outages. We do not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any particular decision will be summarized, or summarized within a particular time.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Pen and Key, LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from reliance on a summary. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose.

15. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or close an account that violates these Terms, including by sharing an account or redistributing summaries. You may stop using the service at any time; to end a subscription, cancel it as described above under Subscriptions, Payment and Billing.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. The date at the top of this page shows the current version. When we make changes, we will ask you to review and accept the updated Terms before you continue using protected website features. Daily member emails continue under the delivery conditions described above while an updated acceptance is outstanding.

17. Dispute Resolution

Informal resolution first. If you have a dispute with Pen and Key, or we have one with you, arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Keypoint website, or your subscription, the party with the dispute must first send the other a written notice describing it and the relief requested: to us at patrick@keypointlegal.com or our mailing address below, and to you at the email address on your account. Both parties will then try in good faith to resolve it informally. Neither party may start any other proceeding until 60 days after the notice is received.

Small claims. If the dispute is not resolved informally and the amount in controversy is within the limit for the small claims division of the district court under Michigan law, it must be brought in the small claims division of a district court in Genesee County, Michigan.

Larger disputes: mediation, then arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved informally and the amount in controversy is above that limit, the parties will first mediate it through the Community Dispute Resolution Program center that serves Genesee County, Michigan, or with another mediator they agree on. If mediation does not resolve the dispute within 60 days after either party requests it, the dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration under Michigan’s Uniform Arbitration Act before a single arbitrator: one the parties agree on or, if they do not agree within 14 days after either party proposes one, one appointed by the Genesee County Circuit Court under that Act. Any in-person session will be held in Genesee County, Michigan, and the mediator or arbitrator may proceed by video, telephone, or written submissions. The arbitrator’s award is final, and judgment on it may be entered in the Genesee County Circuit Court.

Costs. Each party pays its own attorney fees and costs, and the parties share equally any fees of the mediator and the arbitrator.

Individual claims only. Claims may be brought only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding, and the claims of different people may not be combined. You and Pen and Key each waive any right to a jury trial.

Exception. Pen and Key may ask a court for an injunction to stop unauthorized copying, redistribution, or scraping of Keypoint content, or other misuse of its intellectual property.

18. Governing Law and Courts

These Terms of Service are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan. Any court proceeding permitted by these Terms, including a request for an injunction and any proceeding concerning an arbitration, such as appointing an arbitrator or confirming, modifying, or vacating an award, must be filed in the Genesee County Circuit Court or, where Michigan law places the case in district court, in a district court in Genesee County, Michigan. You consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

19. Contact Information

For inquiries regarding these Terms of Service, please contact us at patrick@keypointlegal.com or in writing at Pen and Key, LLC, ℅ Patrick Kinney, 2461 W Hill Rd #1040, Flint, MI 48507.

See also our Privacy Policy and Frequently Asked Questions.

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