An insightful overview of how to interpret Trellis attorney reports and apply insights to your legal strategy.
The Attorney Analysis report offers insights into how individual attorneys handle litigation. It highlights trends, case tactics, and procedural patterns in litigation. By reviewing multiple representative cases, Trellis AI uncovers insights to help you anticipate their next move, whether they are pursuing discovery, negotiating settlement, compelling arbitration, or litigating through trial.
Below is a breakdown of the key areas of the Attorney Analysis report.
Key areas of focus include:
- Summary of Key Cases
- Practice Area Insights
- Discovery Approach
- Motion Practice
- Stipulations
- Challenging or Disqualifying Judicial Officers
- Case Outcomes
- Case Duration
- Attorney's Patterns & Key Takeaways for Opposing Counsel
1. Summary of key cases provides real-world insight into how opposing counsel litigates. By analyzing representative matters, Trellis AI identifies patterns in their motion practice, discovery tactics, case pacing, and trial strategy. These case studies provide insight into how they defend clients, their aggressive pursuit of dismissal or arbitration, and their likelihood of settling or going to trial, offering a high-level understanding of these cases.
2. Practice Area Insight reveals where they focus their legal expertise, and how they’re most likely to litigate. Knowing whether opposing counsel specializes in employment law, commercial disputes, or class actions helps you anticipate their strategic moves, assess risk, and prepare your case more effectively.
3. Discovery Approach - Backed by Trellis data, we make it possible to evaluate how attorneys actually manage discovery across real cases. By analyzing court filings, motions, and outcomes, Trellis uncovers patterns in how attorneys time, object to, and leverage discovery. This insight empowers you to anticipate tactics, defend against discovery abuse, and stay one step ahead.
4. Motion Practice reveals how an attorney tries to win before trial. Is the attorney more aggressive, with well-supported motions—especially summary judgment and motions in limine—to dismiss claims, limit evidence, and control case outcomes? Understanding their motion playbook helps opposing counsel anticipate legal challenges, prepare stronger records, and respond strategically to procedural pressure.
5. Stipulations provide guidance by analyzing an attorney's typical stipulation patterns. It helps you identify potential negotiation points and areas where agreements are more likely, providing a strategic advantage in discussions with opposing counsel.
6. Challenging or Disqualifying Judicial Officers, whether through peremptory challenges or formal motions, this section offers insights into whether an attorney has sought to disqualify a judge from handling their case. Litigators may use judicial challenges to seek a more favorable forum, change the courtroom dynamic, or influence procedural outcomes such as motion rulings or trial management.
It’s crucial to recognize when and why these challenges occur, understand the rules and timing that govern them, and adjust strategy accordingly.
7. Case outcomes offer a window into how an attorney resolves disputes through settlement, dismissal, or trial. They reveal risk posture, strategic timing, and how procedural moves play out over the life of a case. By studying outcomes, litigators can better anticipate opposing counsel’s endgame, adjust negotiation strategies, and align case pacing with expected resolution paths.
8. Case duration offers insight into an attorney’s pacing strategy. Whether they move quickly or extend litigation through motions and stipulations, understanding typical timelines helps you plan more effectively, set client expectations, and align internal resources. Duration patterns often reflect deeper strategic choices not just procedural delays.
9. Attorney's Patterns & Key Takeaways for Opposing Counsel This section distills an attorney’s litigation behavior into actionable insights. It highlights how they approach discovery, motion practice, case pacing, and trial prep so opposing counsel can anticipate strategy, reduce surprises, and prepare effective countermeasures. Recognizing patterns helps legal teams tailor responses and gain tactical advantage early in the case.