«Despite the fact that the data in the court forum belongs to the public, to find information about a case, you have to go to the trial court and know the case number to search for it — which means you need to know that a case exists to find information,» Clark told VentureBeat via email. «Trellis removes these restrictions so you can discover information by party, judge, legal issues — or a combination of these.» «Lexis [and] Westlaw. Focus on the data of the Court of Appeal. Trellis focuses strictly on the state judicial system. The majority of cases — 99 percent — don`t go to court, let alone to court, then appeal, and then the case goes to appeal,» Clark said. Gavelytics only offers funnel analysis. Trellis is a «Google for the entire state court system,» with Judge Analytics as a feature of the data. Clark says Trellis` short-term goal adds features that enable clients in insurance, corporations, hedge funds and law firms. It processes data in specific ways, for example by creating its own machine learning models.

The 22-employee company is currently not profitable, despite recurring annual revenue of $2 million from 1,600 customers (and an 80% gross margin profile). It also competes with established companies like Lexis, Westlaw and Gavelytics. However, Clark believes Trellis` technical skills give it an edge in the legal analysis market of nearly $1 billion. «Since this data is unstructured and has only been digitized in the last 5-10 years, there was no training data for [our] algorithms. So we had to make a massive classification effort on hundreds of different data points, which varied from county to county, to create the set of training to run machine learning in the first place,» Clark said. The types of analysis and variation of ideas are still in their infancy, what is possible and what Trellis plans to do as it continues to grow. We are motivated by accessibility and advocacy. Getting legal help can and should be easy and interactive! That`s why we offer a variety of transactional services, transparent and predictable pricing, blog posts, a newsletter (sign up in the footer) and free resources. Explore our website to read our blog posts and learn more. Introduce a revolutionary new way to control the legal health of your business. As a small, independent law firm, we know the financial challenges of a new business, but we strongly believe that the first steps can help you avoid costly mistakes later on.

That`s why we developed the Trellis Template Library™, a collection of legal tools to help you start and grow your business, and so we can pick you up where you are. We hope that we will be able to establish a lasting legal relationship with these proposals. «Data is essential for legal teams, but also for better decision-making in areas characterized by risk or litigation. We are no longer in the dark,» CEO Nicole Clark, who co-founded Trellis with Alon Shwartz, said in a statement. «My practice changed dramatically when I started using data and analytics to plan my process strategy. The value of the data on my practice and the outcomes of the cases was very clear. Trellis provides a single interface for accessing court and state affairs records. The AI-powered legal research platform allows litigators to compare notes of similar cases and search for data from previous court decisions. Through the database, litigators can access court records and documents from different jurisdictions. Transit slips provide insight into opposing lawyers, from how they handled cases to cases won.

Currently, Trellis provides metrics for a judge`s timeline on decisions, current and historical case schedules, law firms and active cases, which law firms represent which companies, and more. As an example, Trellis shows companies which lawyers and law firms are performing best based on current litigation performance data. For lawyers and law firms, Trellis shows the experiences of individual litigants before specific judges, the time it takes them to bring cases to settlement or trial, and the areas of judgment by case type. AI-powered research and analytics platform for state litigation Trellis Legal`s mission is to provide innovative, responsive and cost-effective legal services to nonprofits, businesses, and citizens of Pennsylvania to make legal representation more accessible and help our clients succeed. There`s nothing scary about working with a good attorney Trellis currently covers 362 courts in states like California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas.