Trial and hearing preparation
From the case file to the courtroom.
Hand it the raw case file. DilloLex writes the direct, cross and redirect questions, cuts hours of video down to the exact moments, builds the charts and exhibits, and drafts the trial brief. It proposes strategy and ideas, catches what changed, and follows the decisions you make. On appeal, it writes the brief and builds the appendix.
The package
What the package holds.
DilloLex builds each piece from the case file. Every factual statement points to its document and page.
Know the case
Built from the file itself.
- Case assessment
- A first-look memo on a new case: what to do this week, the posture and exposure, the governing law and elements, and an element-by-element look at the evidence.
- Index, chronology, witness list
- A case file index, the chronology and the witness list, each built from the file.
- Elements of every claim
- Lays out the elements of every claim and keeps checking the file for what supports or undermines each one.
- A plan for each element
- Proposes a plan to prove each element or take it apart, for you to decide.
Find the holes
The inconsistencies and gaps that cross and discovery turn on.
- Inconsistencies
- Flags inconsistencies between witnesses and documents.
- Discovery gaps
- Flags gaps in discovery, and drafts the discovery demands the gaps call for.
- Prior-statements matrix
- Lays out each key witness’s prior statements side by side.
- Discovery extracts
- Pulls the pages that matter from a large discovery packet into topical extracts. Each page stays as it was and carries a source-page stamp. An index says what each page is.
Motions
The evidence fights and the whole package behind them.
- Evidence memos
- Memos on the evidence rules.
- Motions in limine
- Motions in limine, drafted from the case file.
- The whole motion package
- The motion, the reply, and the declarations and exhibits that support them. Pretrial memoranda and trial briefs too.
The witnesses
Every point tied to the record.
- Cross exam questions
- Cross exam questions for each opposing witness, each one tied to the record.
- Direct exam questions
- Direct exam questions for each of your witnesses, each one tied to the record.
- Your client on the stand
- A memo on the risks if your client testifies, and a short prep sheet of plain-language points to go over with the client.
The courtroom
What you say, what you ask for and what you hand up.
- Opening and closing
- Opening and closing, drafted from the case file.
- Voir dire
- Voir dire, drafted from the case file.
- Jury instructions
- Annotated and clean versions.
- Trial and pretrial memoranda
- A trial memorandum on your pleading paper, and the pretrial memorandum.
Exhibits
The list, the binder and the demonstratives.
- List and binder
- The exhibit list and complete binder.
- Timeline demonstratives
- Timeline demonstratives.
- Redactions with a log
- Redacted exhibits with a redaction log.
- Exhibits from your motion
- Hand it your motion and it builds the exhibit set from the documents the motion cites, in citation order, with an index. A cite it cannot match is flagged, not guessed.
The cross kit
Bodycam and audio, cut to the moment.
- Timestamped clips
- Bodycam and audio clips cut to the moments it finds for cross, each labeled by timestamp and what is said.
Motion hearings
The same work, sized for a hearing.
- Argument memo
- The argument for the hearing, with the oral requests you plan to make.
- Hearing game plan
- A game plan for the hearing, for you to decide.
- Pleading book
- Everything filed on the motion, in order, in one book.
- Hearing binder
- A complete binder for the hearing.
Family law hearings
The hearing package for support, fees and custody.
- Support and fees
- Support and fee calculations.
- Custody analysis
- A custody analysis.
- Proposed findings
- Proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, and a pleading book.
Appeals
From the record to the brief: the issues, the first draft and the appendix.
- Issues for appeal
- It reads the whole record and suggests issues for appeal, each with its standard of review and a full explanation. Each one comes to you as a card to add or decline.
- The first draft of the brief
- Written from the entire record, its library of statutes, rules and opinions, and the issues you kept.
- Appendix volumes
- Volumes built to the page limit with continuous pagination and chronological and alphabetical indexes.
- Gaps found for you
- It tells you which record cites point to a page the appendix lacks.
- Pinpoint record cites
- Pinpoints the record cites in the brief to the appendix volume and page, and lists the ones that point nowhere.
Before you see it
Checked before you see it.
A quote audit checks every quotation against the record. A verification report lists what was checked, so you know what was covered.
The living file
It keeps working.
Discovery comes in, an order is entered, a client sends documents. Each is read, named, stamped and indexed. The elements keep checking the file for what supports or undermines each one as new material comes in.
The draft catches up the same way, so the current facts, record cites and exhibits are in it when you sit down to file.
See it run. Thirty minutes.
Thirty minutes. We show you DilloLex running, answer your questions, and tell you plainly if it is not a fit.
Every day, 8am to 8pm. A founder answers, never a salesperson.