Technology does the heavy lifting.
A specialist does the judging.

AThe certified specialist

Every brief is reviewed, revised, and approved before delivery by an Ohio attorney certified as a specialist in appellate law by the Ohio State Bar Association. Board certification in appellate law is held by only a small fraction of Ohio's lawyers; it requires substantial appellate experience, peer review, and a written examination, and it is the credential Ohio's own rules treat as the gold standard for holding oneself out as a specialist.

We publish the credential rather than a personality. The reviewing specialist's identity and certification are disclosed to referring counsel at engagement, where they can be verified directly. Behind the review sits a proprietary, full-text research database of Ohio appellate decisions that powers both our research and our analytics products.

BHow the craft and the technology fit together

We are candid about our method, because it is a feature. Modern research technology reads an enormous volume of authority quickly, drafts capably, and never gets tired. It also, used carelessly, fabricates citations; courts have sanctioned lawyers for exactly that. Our production process is designed around that failure mode:

• Research begins and ends inside a verified corpus of actual Ohio appellate decisions.
• No authority appears in a brief unless a lawyer has opened and read the official opinion.
• Every brief ships with a citation verification report your firm can audit in minutes.
• The specialist signs off on the law, the strategy, and the words.

The result is a brief with the research depth of a machine and the judgment of a specialist, at a price a flat fee can cover.

CA note on the word “expert”

Lawyers are rightly careful about claiming expertise. Under Ohio Prof.Cond.R. 7.4, a lawyer may state that they are a certified specialist when the certifying body is approved, and the United States Supreme Court held in Peel v. Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission (1990) that truthful specialist claims are protected commercial speech. We use the word because, here, it is simply accurate and verifiable.