State trial court data - accessible for the first time! Trellis is a comprehensive AI-powered state court research and analytics platform built by litigators for litigators.
What will you discover when you access the largest searchable database of state trial court records?
Imagine being able to “google search” state trial court records (dockets, rulings, and filed documents) across counties and states through a single interface, to learn exactly how your judge, party, or opposing counsel has handled similar cases? Now you can. Welcome to Smart Search.
"Trellis is an extremely useful state trial court tool for law students, faculty, and practicing attorneys."
"I believe that your product is extremely useful and beneficial to solos like myself who have just 1-2 staff members. Thank you for creating this platform and I look forward to continuing doing business with you in the future."
"In my opinion, Trellis is the only system I've used that actually works the way a system should for state cases."
"I have a moment with Trellis almost every day finding results I wouldn't have been able to find anywhere else," says Rubin. "The information in Trellis changed my cases from being on defense to offense. Trellis is an essential tool for litigators."
"Our library started a trial of Trellis. Because of the content, we thought our clinic professors might be interested. In addition to state trial court data and records, Trellis offers search features such as Judge Analytics, Verdicts, and Motions & Issues. Trellis is also adding state statutes, administrative codes, constitutions, and court rules. If a student in a legal clinic needed to look up a sample complaint or motion, a Trellis search can locate a similar case with a searchable docket containing pleadings that have been filed. Similarly, the same student looking to apply for a clerkship with a specific judge can utilize Judge Analytics to see what types of cases the judge typically has on their dockets, how often a case goes to trial, and what kinds of motions the judge's ruling on."
"Trellis has been a game-changer for our civil trial practice. Before Trellis, searching trial dockets was difficult and cumbersome. With Trellis, however, we can instantly search every filing, in every Florida trial docket, to find exactly what we need all in one place."
"We bid farewell to Big Law in 2020 and started our own law firm. One thing we strongly missed was the convenience of quickly accessing a template from the firm's extensive database of previously drafted documents. Trellis Law has revolutionized this process for us. Their platform enables us to search every state court filing in Florida and even refine our search by law firm or attorney, ensuring that we find prior filings pertinent to the issue at hand. Additionally, it offers a seamless way to view how the Court ruled by easily allowing you to pull up the Order on the Motion under review. This remarkable platform has truly been a game changer for us, saving countless hours and streamlining our work. We cannot praise the Trellis platform enough for its exceptional capabilities!"
"The Judge Analytics function has been very useful in connection with bringing critical motions and conducting trials in getting a feel for the Court's inclinations with respect to specialized issues. As a California based attorney, I've also found the research tools, including Document Search, helpful for matters I am handling in other jurisdictions pro hac vice."
"Here's my prediction: Trellis Law is going to transform the way lawyers practice in the state courts. Imagine having a searchable database of every state court document. Imagine having access to a judicial dashboard that helps you understand how a judge has ruled on particular motions. Imagine being able to search every motion before a judge and learn the arguments that influenced the judge's decision. You don't have to imagine. It exists. (Nicole Clark) has created it in Trellis Law."
"I do think the access to state filings to use as samples on Trellis is really useful for small firms, like ours, who often lack the depth of “brief banks” and similar that larger firms accumulate over the years. At the federal level, there’s PACER (or RECAP, etc.) which is brilliant for this, but at the California state level, such access is extremely challenging due to lack of search, pay-to-access docs in many state courts. Trellis helps make up for this and is highly useful."
"The Trellis state court judicial bios are fabulous. Depending on the state, bios for such folks can be hard to find, so I’m very grateful for what Trellis produces."
“I recently argued a significant discovery matter in front of a California court. Using Trellis, I researched other California trial courts’ orders and tentative orders on a critically important issue. Though those orders were not binding as precedent, they were nonetheless very helpful to my thinking. Ultimately, the court ruled in my clients’ favor, and I believe that the material I found through Trellis greatly contributed to that success.”
"Whether we want to contrast different courts to view how judges have ruled on similar motions, see how specific legal issues are decided, or gain competitive insights on opposing counsel, Trellis assists our Library with strategic state trial court comparison analytics."
"If you’d like to look at examples of responses or motions that other people have filed, Trellis is a great place to do that. Click on the 'Motions & Issues' menu item in Trellis for a list of different types of motions with descriptions of what the motions are used for and legal standards and examples of that type of motion that people have submitted to the court. Another way is to start by typing your search terms into the Trellis search bar. You can filter by Practice Area, Motion Type, County, Judge, and more!"
"But after talking with Nicole Clark, I believe the highest value (of Trellis' Law Firm Intelligence solution) will come from the insights the data tells a firm about itself and its place in the market. It will allow a law firm, particularly a large one with offices in multiple states, to gain insights into its internal litigation practice."
"The Trellis Law Firm Intelligence tool enables firms to identify growth opportunities, benchmark themselves, and drill down into the data to find strategic insights. Firms can slice and dice the data by region, practice area, time period, and other parameters to get to the most relevant information. LFI also gives litigators specific insights into judges, opposing counsel tactics, and case outcomes."
"We recommend Trellis Verdict Searches to Alameda County Law Library patrons all the time!"
"Clearly there's a use case for using Trellis and the Law Firm Intelligence (LFI) tool for business development. What's more, LFI is almost like a wellness check for firms in terms of their overall litigation health. Where are we good, and where do we need some help?"
"With Trellis Law's new LFI feature firms can assess themselves internally, their business and new case growth over time, their experience and market growth in particular practice areas or regions, and their motion practice performance before certain judges, based on the state trial court numbers."
"Trellis truly understands the power of making things simple and intuitive while ensuring quality and usefulness. If you are a US-based legal professional or law firm looking for ways to make legal research more effective and less time-consuming, we at the show recommend you check Trellis out."
"Trellis is a one-stop-shop where you can easily & effectively find a variety of legal resources. An example is Trellis' powerful tool called Judge Analytics. This functionality enables us to better prepare our materials because of the available factual data. I love that part of Trellis! We also appreciate how easy it is to download documents from the docket while finding helpful case related summaries."
"Our library team was trying to find Maryland complaints mentioning a non-party individual, which would have been a massive undertaking just using the court’s website, but it only took an hour on Trellis. We are really grateful for this resource, so I just wanted to let you know that it’s already been valuable to us!"
"Jenkins Law Library is thrilled to announce the addition of Trellis. Trellis helps our patrons collect state trial court data and documents while also offering tools that provide detailed analytics. For Pennsylvania specifically, Trellis currently collects docket information from all 67 PA counties along with court filings from the following counties: Philadelphia, Butler, Delaware, Lancaster, and York."
"THANK GOD FOR ALL OF YOU. PERSONAL ATTENTION, BEING ABLE TO FIND CASES ON THE DISTRICT COURT LEVEL IN ND IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I HAVE A "SECRET AGENT" HELPING ME DO GOOD WORK EVERY DAY!!! (YES, I AM SHOUTING IN JOY!)"
"I have trial-ed Trellis in my field, and it is also helpful if you're on the litigation support side as a damages expert, for searching for documents and getting docket update alerts sent to you. Often, we work with attorneys where our reports are important but really not the key part of the case, so they sometimes don't realize we also benefit from these updates. It helps us to be able to access additional information about the case's progress and get more timely updates on things like scheduling order changes and we can provide better client service."
"Once you learn how to use Trellis it makes an attorney's job much easier - and that's the goal. You're now looking into the mindsets of opposing counsel, judges and juries at the tips of your fingertips online, and it is just unbelievable to think how far we've come from being back in the stacks with the books."
"Trellis has been doing interesting things for years making state court data accessible ... I love the analytics stuff. This is maybe one of my favorite tech features of any legal tool."
"Trellis is really doing the legal version of piercing the corporate veil. You're really giving us a sense of what is out there, and what one necessarily needs to be able to thrive either as a firm of any size, pro se litigant - what have you. Just absolutely incredible."
"Trellis is a legal analytics platform and a 'game-changer' for accessing state court trial data. Now used daily by litigators throughout the US."
"The best thing about Trellis is that it leverages technology that helps lawyers gain a competitive advantage in the courtroom and help win their cases. Law firms who use this platform use it for a variety of things, such as judge and opposing counsel research, writing motions and learning about other cases. Trellis has a data set that can assist lawyers when they are stumped and don't know where to start. Are you writing a motion on an unfamiliar topic? Trellis can pull up a few similar motions so you can use them as a template to begin writing. With this, the platform fills in the legal gaps and gives lawyers the confidence to practice!"
"Trellis is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges, verdicts, opposing counsel, motions, dockets and any other legal issues. If your attorney wants to get insight, or you want to get insights into previous verdicts or motions or 'get the goods' on opposing counsel or how judges have ruled on previous cases, Trellis is the place to go."
"I know the power of bringing structure to a previously kind of offline or unstructured data set and the kinds of insights that can arise from that such as with Trellis. That's incredibly exciting."
"Trellis is a thriving, scalable legal analytics platform to help democratize state trial court data."
"Thank you for your prompt (as always) reply. You guys are the best. I simply love your Trellis platform and could not survive without it."
"Trellis has stepped in to provide insights into judges, giving more robust and empirical sourcing into what was once mere anecdote. As these analytics increasingly become an industry standard, more law firms are finding it necessary to have judicial data on hand to inform strategy, while in-house teams are subscribing to them to inform how they select outside counsel for litigation."
"Great presentation and outline of Trellis capability."
"Our new state court docket database, Trellis, has robust offerings of Massachusetts state court dockets AND allows Social Law Library members remote access. You can now search by parties, judges, keywords and more in Massachusetts state court dockets, or in 40+ other jurisdictions from your home or office. Simply log in to the Social Law Library Database page and click on “Trellis” from the left-hand column. No more finicky searching county-by-county on MassCourts.org. Now you can search across Massachusetts without specifying the court, even if you don’t have a party’s full name; or search by any keywords of your choosing – statutory cites, attorney and firm names, pleadings, common actions, and more. Do you need a sample Motion to Dismiss; or would you like to run searches within the filings, or pull a Complaint on a specific topic? Try Trellis for these types of research requests and pull real-world examples. Trellis also includes Judicial analytics, so if you’re curious to see what kinds of cases a judge has ruled on, how often they grant motions, and their average length to trial or rulings on motions, log in now!"
"I sometimes avoid analytics, so I appreciate Trellis. Thank you for making this understandable."
"Trellis focuses on state coverage, includes state judge analytics, and aims to make state trial courts and legal data more accessible and transparent. In fact, Trellis aims to be so transparent that it’s made its coverage publicly available."
"Trellis is an incredible product."
"Trellis is so informative."
"Trellis is a badly needed service. Thank you."
"Trellis is very smart and practical."
"I loved finding out on Trellis about how you could do deep dives on individual courts, judges etc."
"Seeing the parties, judges, case law, motions, and expert information, and learning about possible access to particulars of arbitration awards, all in one software is certainly a 'Trellis' of an approach."
"The Trellis research knowledge base is excellent."
"Thanks for the presentation and introducing me to a great legal research resource."
"Everything about the Trellis seminar was excellent."
"Amazing resource to have. Will definitely use!"
"The Cleveland Law Library is pleased to announce that it has purchased a plan from Trellis, which provides Ohio State court trial dockets and documents, as well as judicial analytics for local county court judges. The Law Library's plan will enable our staff to search the full text of documents in dockets from 81 Ohio counties and retrieve associated documents from 30 of those counties, including Cuyahoga County. As a result, Trellis will make it easier to find samples of pleadings, motions, memoranda, exhibits, and orders from actual court cases that meet our members' research needs. As lawyers often find, there is not a template or official court form for everything. Our Law Library staff will also be able to generate comprehensive reports on Ohio judges. These reports contain: • Biographical information • Grant and denial rates by motion type • Outcome statistics • Milestones (i.e., timing analysis for key case milestones) Please take advantage of this new Law Library product."
"Trellis is a legal research platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze data from state trial court systems across the US. This platform facilitates comprehensive research by allowing users to search court dockets and filings, while also offering AI-powered insights on judges, opposing counsel, past motions, and case outcomes."
Search through millions of Court Dockets and Documents. Learn more about the Trellis State Court Coverage. For a complete list of jurisdictions, see the coverage list below.
Building the best case for your client means relying on more than anecdotes and emails. Our Judge Analytics Dashboard is the first of its kind to let you analyze millions of state trial court cases to surface the most powerful analysis for your case. From motion grant rates, to important case milestones, you’ll have the insights you need to make the right decision - every time.
With your expertise, and our analytics, you’ll be able to practice data-driven law that will set you apart from the crowd.
For the first time, search the body and text of filed trial court documents to find exactly what you need to draft a case winning narrative..
Search across dockets to uncover intelligence about parties’ litigation history and your opposing counsel’s past strategy.
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For the first time you can track legal issues as they are being decided - in real time. You’re the expert! Trellis helps you stay that way.
Research your judge, find out how the judge thinks about specific legal issues and motions.
In my opinion, Trellis is the only system I've used that actually works the way a system should for state cases
I have a moment with Trellis almost every day finding results I wouldn't have been able to find anywhere else," says Rubin. "The information in Trellis changed my cases from being on defense to offense. Trellis is an essential tool for litigators.
Our library started a trial of Trellis. Because of the content, we thought our clinic professors might be interested. In addition to state trial court data and records, Trellis offers search features such as Judge Analytics, Verdicts, and Motions & Issues. Trellis is also adding state statutes, administrative codes, constitutions, and court rules. If a student in a legal clinic needed to look up a sample complaint or motion, a Trellis search can locate a similar case with a searchable docket containing pleadings that have been filed. Similarly, the same student looking to apply for a clerkship with a specific judge can utilize Judge Analytics to see what types of cases the judge typically has on their dockets, how often a case goes to trial, and what kinds of motions the judge's ruling on.
Managing Attorney @ Beacon Legal PLLC
Trellis has been a game-changer for our civil trial practice. Before Trellis, searching trial dockets was difficult and cumbersome. With Trellis, however, we can instantly search every filing, in every Florida trial docket, to find exactly what we need all in one place.
Partner @ Clayton Trial Lawyers
Trellis has been a game-changer for our civil trial practice. Before Trellis, searching trial dockets was difficult and cumbersome. With Trellis, however, we can instantly search every filing, in every Florida trial docket, to find exactly what we need all in one place.
Founding Principal Attorney & Lead Counsel @ Guerra Law
The Judge Analytics function has been very useful in connection with bringing critical motions and conducting trials in getting a feel for the Court's inclinations with respect to specialized issues. As a California based attorney, I've also found the research tools, including Document Search, helpful for matters I am handling in other jurisdictions pro hac vice.
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