Trellis is a litigation-focused legal research and analytics platform built around US state trial court data rather than appellate-only case law. Its core job is to make state trial dockets, rulings, documents, and judge analytics searchable in one interface so litigators can see how specific judges, counsel, parties, and motion types behave before they write, file, or advise. The vendor knowledge base says Trellis aggregates hundreds of millions of state-court civil dockets and documents and currently provides state trial-court coverage across 45 states. Community signal is light but useful: a r/biglaw thread says the judge analytics are great, and Capterra shows a small but positive review sample with pricing starting at about $99/month. Funding coverage is strong enough to confirm durability, with reported $14.1M Series A and $15M Series B rounds inside a broader ~$35.6M total funding picture. The strongest fit is litigation strategy, judge research, docket monitoring, and state-trial-court intelligence. Public evidence for security certifications and deep enterprise integrations is still thin.
Capabilities
Spans 8 product areas: Legal Research, Litigation , Analytics, Brief , Drafting and , Analysis, Litigation Management and Trial Preparation, Knowledge Management.
Workflow Coverage
Based on published feature listings, this tool maps to 2 workflow areas:
- Research & Analysis — Citation Checking, Citation Analysis
- Document Review & Management
Workflow mappings derived from published feature lists. Not independently verified.
Company Info
- Founded: 2018
- Team size: 51-200 employees
- Funding: $35.6M
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Legal Research
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Trellis Research is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Trellis Research addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Legal research costs $400-600/hour in associate time and takes hours of manual digging — searching Westlaw/Lexis, reading irrelevant results, synthesizing case law. Clients increasingly refuse to pay for research hours on invoices. AI can compress a 4-hour research memo into 20 minutes, but most firms have no approved tool
Litigation team preparing for trial needs to understand how a specific judge rules on summary judgment motions, Daubert challenges, and sentencing — but there's no systematic analytics on judge behavior, so strategy relies on anecdotes from colleagues who've appeared before that judge
When my litigation team needs state trial-court filings and rulings across counties and courts, I want them searchable in one place, so I'm not sending associates to a patchwork of local court sites and still missing the motion that changes the case.
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Trellis Research
A litigation matter lands, a partner wants to know how a specific state-court judge treats motions, or a team needs to see what has already happened in similar state trial cases before choosing a filing or settlement strategy.
After Trellis Research
Trellis outputs feed into motion strategy, forum selection, client advisories, settlement posture, deposition and hearing prep, and increasingly AI-assisted draft generation for motions and case strategy reports.
Integrations & hand-offs
State trial-court research in Trellis -> motion drafting and trial prep; judge/counsel analytics -> litigation strategy meetings; alerts and docket monitoring -> case-management follow-up. Public evidence for deeper DMS, billing, or SSO handoffs remains limited.
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