Parallax Litigation Intelligence is a consultancy retained by law firms and in-house counsel. We analyze public court records with modern data science and convert them into strategic work product for your live matter, delivered directly to your legal team, under your direction.
We are retained by counsel, not parties. Our findings move through your legal team, marked and protected as work product.
Subscriptions: dashboards, coverage statistics, alert feeds: powerful data, operated by your own team, answering questions you already thought to ask.
Matter-specific synthesis on the live case: the opposition's actual patterns, the bench's handling of comparable matters, and what counsel should have ready before the next filing arrives.
Evidence development, asset location, testimony support on large, often international matters. Fact-finding at global scale.
Between them sits an unserved layer. Who is across the table, and how have they actually litigated, motion by motion, filing by filing? What does the judge grant, and when? What will the opposition's playbook produce next, and what should counsel have ready before it arrives?
That is the layer we work in. One matter at a time. Public records only: analyzed the way a data team would, briefed the way your trial team needs.
The filing tells you what happened. The pattern tells you how they operate.
Every engagement produces structured work product. Documents counsel can use, on the record that matters: yours.
An intelligence dossier on opposing counsel and adverse parties, built entirely from public records: bar standing, published materials, reported matters, and a pattern-read of filings in the live case. Verified and inferred content is graded and labeled throughout. Delivered to counsel, marked as preparation-of-claims work product.
A structured read of the assigned judge's handling of comparable matters (motion grant rates, sequencing preferences, written style) and of the case's own docket against both patterns. Presented as structured context for counsel's tactical judgment, with stated confidence and basis. Not a prediction of any ruling.
When the other side deploys forensic accountants, discovery specialists, or technical consultants, we read their published methods against the live docket, map the sequence as it executes, and brief counsel on what typically follows, before each step lands.
Recurring monitoring of the live case docket, reconciled against the written record, with briefings that flag meaningful movement: new filings, timing signals, and departures from pattern. Frequency set by the pace of the matter. Delivered as work product, on schedule, without prompting.
Public-records profiles of opposing experts and witnesses: qualifications, prior testimony and publications where published publicly, and the methods they are known to favor, supporting counsel's preparation for depositions and cross-examination. Sourced and graded; never pretexted.
Structured conversion of case documents the client already lawfully holds (transcripts, orders, correspondence, log exports) into timelines, pattern tables, and arithmetic reconciliations, each load-bearing figure verified against its source and cited to the record.
Seven steps, in this order, on every matter. The structure is the product.
The engagement is papered before analysis begins: scope, deliverables, cadence, and the routing protocol are set in writing with counsel.
All work is performed at the direction of counsel and delivered to counsel, marked appropriately. We do not advise parties directly, and we do not substitute our judgment for yours. Counsel owns every strategic and legal decision.
Structured collection from court dockets, official records, bar records, regulatory filings, and published primary sources. No pretexting. No covert collection. No contact with the subject of analysis.
Records are parsed, cross-checked, and graded by source tier. Every figure is verified against the underlying record; every inference is labeled as inference. Analysis unsupported by the record is discarded, not included.
Deliverables are checked against the record by a control pass distinct from the build pass, and every load-bearing citation is re-verified against source before anything moves.
Findings are delivered as structured work product (written briefing plus charts) and re-briefed live with the legal team where useful. Open questions are logged in a standing register, with ownership and review dates, rather than left to memory.
Where retained, docket monitoring continues for the life of the matter, with findings delivered to counsel on the agreed cadence, plus escalations when the record moves.
The instrument changes; the discipline does not. Every machine-surfaced fact is verified against the primary record before it is used.
Modern language models parse thousands of docket entries, filings, and orders into structured timelines and pattern tables. Every load-bearing fact they surface is then verified against the underlying record before use.
Corporate registries, official-records indices, and court data are connected into relationship maps: entities, principals, filings, and intersections across matters and years.
Recurring, scripted surveillance of the live docket with baselined state and change detection, so nothing that moves goes unseen between briefings.
Motion outcomes, sequences, and timing across the assigned judge's comparable matters, computed and presented with stated confidence: context for counsel's judgment, never a promise about any ruling.
Every claim in a deliverable carries its source tier: verified against a primary source, corroborated across sources, singly sourced, inferred, or unresolved. Nothing unlabeled leaves the shop.
Every figure, date, citation, and quoted term passes a human verification pass against the source layer before delivery. Where the record is silent, the deliverable says so.
These boundaries are commitments, not aspirations.
Collection is limited to court dockets, government records, regulatory filings, and published primary sources. No pretexting. No covert collection. No social engineering of any person.
We do not contact opposing parties, adverse witnesses, or opposing counsel in any matter we support. Where contact with the client party is required, it occurs only as needed, at counsel's discretion, and within the scope counsel sets. Contact with courts and records custodians is limited to administrative verification (confirming docket entries, filings, and official records) and never includes substantive or ex parte communication about a pending matter.
We are retained by law firms and in-house legal departments, under written engagements, and work at the direction of counsel. We do not accept direction from a party except through counsel, and do not provide services or advice to parties directly.
We do not collect, develop, or package information about adversaries' unrelated personal history for use as leverage; intelligence supports strategy on the merits, and nothing else. Deliverables instruct counsel to treat such incidental content with care and at counsel's judgment.
Findings describe patterns in records. We do not predict rulings, promise results, or warrant consequences.
Our work product supports licensed counsel. We are not a law firm, do not practice law, and every strategic judgment remains with counsel and client.
Engagements begin with counsel. Send a note describing the posture of the matter (venue, phase, and the questions you need answered) and we will respond within one business day, before any engagement or fee discussion.
In the first call we cover three things, in order:
Or write to counsel's preferred point of contact; routing instructions are confirmed in writing before substantive discussion. We will not request confidential detail before a written engagement exists.