Overview
Trellis addresses a significant gap in legal research by focusing on state trial courts, whose data is often less accessible and searchable than federal courts. It aggregates dockets, rulings, motions, and verdict information from numerous state trial courts across the US. Using AI, Trellis makes this data searchable and provides analytics on judges (how they tend to rule on specific motion types, timing), motion strategies, and verdict trends. This allows litigators to gain insights into state court judges and case outcomes that are difficult to obtain elsewhere, helping them tailor arguments, predict outcomes, and manage client expectations.
Use cases
Primary: Researching state trial court judge ruling history and tendencies, analyzing motion success rates in specific courts/cases.
Other use cases:
- • Tracking state court dockets
- • Finding example motions and rulings
- • Researching verdict data for case valuation.
AI capabilities
- → AI/ML for parsing unstructured court documents
- → Extracting key data points (motion types, outcomes, judge names)
- → Analyzing judicial ruling patterns
- → Enhancing search relevance.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- ✓ Provides unique and valuable data on state trial courts
- ✓ Judge analytics offer strategic advantages
- ✓ Helps predict outcomes and tailor arguments
- ✓ Potentially saves significant research time.
Cons
- ! Coverage varies by state and county (data accessibility challenge)
- ! Analytics depend on data quality/completeness from courts
- ! Subscription cost
- ! Focus limited to state trial courts (federal covered by others).
Pricing
Model: SaaS subscription, likely tiered based on features, number of users, geographic coverage.
Pricing details: Not publicly disclosed. Requires contacting vendor or signing up for trial.
Integrations
- • Specific integrations not heavily marketed; primarily a standalone research platform.
- • API might be available.
What sets it apart
- ★ Specific focus on state trial court data and analytics (a niche often underserved)
- ★ AI-driven insights into judge behavior at the trial court level
- ★ Searchable database of otherwise hard-to-find trial court documents.
Compliance & security
Not specified, but standard data protection expected.