New Features
Filed Document Search
- Library of +110m searchable filed case documents across counties
- Body and text of filed documents searchable
- “Brief Bank” of the largest database of filed state trial court docs available
- Los Angeles Superior Court docs included with your subscription
New Features
Filed Document Search
- Library of +110m searchable filed case documents across counties
- Body and text of filed documents searchable
- “Brief Bank” of the largest database of filed state trial court docs available
- Los Angeles Superior Court docs included with your subscription
Case Search
- Easy access to state and county court case data for all your legal research needs
- Smart Search Technology™ makes it simple to “google search” state court dockets, filed documents, motions, rulings, and more
- Quickly see recent updates to cases and download court documents on-demand without ever having to log in to state court databases
- Reduce your state and county court fees and time spent with access to our library of millions of free documents
Judge Analytics
- Leverage the most extensive and deepest set of state court data from hundreds of fragmented trial courts
- Easy to read dashboard gives you the data you need to evaluate judge decisions for court cases
- Quickly see a judge’s motion grant rates, caseload practice area breakdown, and timing expectations for case milestones
- Our judge biographies reveal practical information - education history, career history, political affiliation, articles written about the judge, and even clerk’s contact info
Track Cases
- Alerts - get real-time notifications as judges rule on a case
- Stay informed on cases that matter to you by adding an alert
- Quickly and easily share updates or changes to a case with colleagues
- Easily see what updates have occurred with a case history.
Document Fetching/Purchase
- Automatically purchase filed documents in counties that charge though a single interface
- Documents purchased become part of our crowd sourced library searchable by all users
- Benefit from documents purchased by other firms
- Set up firm-wide pass-through billing to easily pass through document charges
- Purchase document coverage includes:
- CA (Orange County, San Diego, Sacramento, Riverside, San Bernardino, Alamada)
- WA (King County)
- AZ (all counties)
- GA (Bartow County, Bibb, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke, Dougherty, Floyd, Jackson, Muscogee, Troup)
Verdict Search
- Research and filter verdicts with over 20+ search criteria for quick and precise verdict search results
- Simple layout for easy-to-read settlement and verdict research
- View tens of thousands of detailed state trial court verdicts and their underlying case dockets
- Dig deeper into millions of searchable verdict-related documents
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of court records are available with Smart Search Technology?
You can find court records for state trial courts - practice areas: personal injury, family, probate, civil rights, civil litigation, and much more.
Do you offer a free trial?
Yes, everyone is eligible to sign up for a free 14-day trial
How do I search with your Smart Search Technology?
You can search within Trellis.Law by case name, case number, judge, party, or attorney, and filter your results by practice area, case type, verdict, and more.
How can I download court cases and documents in bulk?
You can download court records using our API. Contact Sales to learn more about our API plans.
What if I can’t find the case or document I am looking for?
You can contact Trellis.Law’s support team to speak with our customer success experts to help you with your court record needs.
How current is the case information on Trellis.law?
Trellis offers cases filed as recent as today. Case information is frequently updated and users can request immediate case updates for access to the latest case information, docket events, and documents available.
Mary Ritter
"Trellis is an extremely useful state trial court tool for law students, faculty, and practicing attorneys."
Annon.
"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."
Karen
"In my opinion, Trellis is the only system I've used that actually works the way a system should for state cases."
Jack M. Rubin
"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."
Christy Smith
"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."
Landon Stinson, Esq.
"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."
Miguel Aristizabal
"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!"
Jason E. Guerra
"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."
Jackie Gardina
"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."
Kristopher Nelson
"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."
Trellis User
"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."
Julie Cantor
“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.”
Brian Cassidy
"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."
Megan B.
"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!"
Stephen Embry
"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."
Greg Lambert
"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."
Megan B.
"We recommend Trellis Verdict Searches to Alameda County Law Library patrons all the time!"
Marlene Gebauer
"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?"
Caroline Hill
"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."
Hadassah Drukarch
"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."
Yvette Lopez
"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."
Courtney Alsbury
"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!"
Taylor Berkoski
"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."
Bonnie Humphrey
"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!)"
Austin Parris
"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."
Benny Gold
"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."
Jared Correia
"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."
Alice Wang
"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."
Neil Handwerker
"Trellis is a legal analytics platform and a 'game-changer' for accessing state court trial data. Now used daily by litigators throughout the US."
Tyson Mutrux
"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!"
Brooke Dunwell
"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."
Alex Kelly
"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."
Michael D.J. Eisenberg
"Trellis is a thriving, scalable legal analytics platform to help democratize state trial court data."
Alan R. Goodman
"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."
Dana Walters
"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."
Don McInnis
"Great presentation and outline of Trellis capability."
Staff
"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!"
Debra
"I sometimes avoid analytics, so I appreciate Trellis. Thank you for making this understandable."
Michelle Penn
"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."
William
"Trellis is an incredible product."
Steven McKinley
"Trellis is so informative."
Susan
"Trellis is a badly needed service. Thank you."
Cheryl
"Trellis is very smart and practical."
Miriam
"I loved finding out on Trellis about how you could do deep dives on individual courts, judges etc."
Susan B., Esq. (Retired)
"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."
