What Is Trellis Chat?

Instead of running separate searches across judges, attorneys, cases, filings, and outcomes, tell Trellis Chat what you want to understand. It determines what to research, searches the relevant Trellis data, cross-checks its findings, and links back to the underlying sources. There is nothing to connect or set up.

What you get

Sourced, verifiable answers to multi-step litigation research questions, grounded in Trellis’s structured state trial court data.

Trellis Chat draws from the same underlying data that powers judge analytics, attorney analytics, case research, and litigation reports across the Trellis platform.

How it works

• Ask a research question in plain English.
• Trellis Chat retrieves the relevant records and generates a sourced answer.
• Continue the conversation with follow-up questions — Trellis Chat pulls fresh data with every response.

Trellis Chat vs. Connectors

Trellis Chat and the Claude and ChatGPT connectors provide natural-language access to the same Trellis dataset. The difference is where you work.

Trellis Chat lives inside the Trellis platform itself, so there's no setup step. The connectors bring that same data into Claude or ChatGPT, for teams who want Trellis alongside the other AI tools they already use. Both draw from your subscription's Content Views the same way.

Prompts to help you get started

Judge Research

"Pull judicial analytics for [Judge Name] in [County] Superior Court. Show ruling rates on summary judgment motions and compare to the county average."

Opposing Counsel

"Search Trellis for cases where [Attorney Name] has appeared in [County]. What's their win rate, and are there any patterns in the types of motions they file?"

Company Research

"Pull the litigation history for [Company Name] as a defendant in California state courts. Summarize the case types, outcomes, and any notable patterns."

Expert Research

"Find expert witness profiles in Trellis for experts who have testified in [practice area] cases in [State]. Summarize their background and testimony history."

Venue Research

"Compare summary judgment grant rates across [County A] and [County B] Superior Courts. Which venue looks more favorable for a defendant in a commercial dispute?"

Good to Know

Each Trellis Chat question uses Content Views from your subscription, just like searching, viewing, downloading, or printing elsewhere in Trellis.

In most cases, a single question uses one Content View, but broad or multi-part questions may use more, since they require pulling more underlying data to answer. See Content Views for details on your plan's allotment.