Free Legal Fax Cover Sheet Template
A law-office fax cover sheet with a PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL banner, matter and court fields, and fillable form lines — download the PDF.
One page, US Letter. Every fill-in line is a PDF form field — type into it in any PDF viewer, or print it blank and complete it by hand.
What's on the sheet
- PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL banner across the top
- Matter / case number, court, and document title fields
- To and From blocks with firm, fax, and phone lines
- Date, total pages, Re/Subject line, message area, and a small PerPageFax footer credit
How to use this template
- Download the PDF and type into the form fields, or print it blank.
- Fill in the date, page count, sender and recipient, and the matter / case number, court, and document title so the pages file correctly on arrival.
- Place it on top of your documents. If you fax it, put the cover sheet first — files are transmitted in the order you stack them.
Built for how law offices actually fax
Legal faxing is mostly filing-adjacent: signed pleadings and discovery responses to courts and opposing counsel, demands, engagement letters, and lien notices. Those transmissions carry deadlines and privilege, so the sheet leads with the banner, keeps a page count so missing pages get noticed, and leaves a document title line for exactly what was sent — useful months later when you need to prove what the recipient received.
Many courts accept faxed filings for certain submissions, and some agencies still ask for fax rather than email — if you are sending to a court, confirm the fax number and any cover sheet requirements in the local rules first. For whether courts accept faxed documents and how to send them, see our guide on faxing legal documents.
Frequently asked questions
It marks every transmission as attorney work product or attorney-client communication so an unintended recipient is on notice before reading further. Whether privilege ultimately holds depends on the content and circumstances — the banner supports the claim, it does not create it.
Law firms route faxes by matter, not by name — a file may involve several attorneys over years. A matter or case number (plus the court, when the document relates to a filing) gets the pages into the right file and cited correctly, which matters for deadlines and the record.
Yes. Download it, type into it, print it, and use it at your firm — free, no account, no watermark beyond a small footer credit. For your letterhead, custom wording, and a live preview, the free cover sheet builder has a Legal template too.
Both work. Every fill-in line is a real PDF form field, so Acrobat, Preview, Chrome, and most PDF viewers let you type directly and save or print the result. Printing it blank and completing it by hand works just as well.