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Trellis Trial Court Data API
Integrate comprehensive legal data to drive insights and enrich your internal workflows.
The Trellis Trial Court Data API provides instant access to a comprehensive database of state and federal trial court data and insights, enabling your organization to leverage deep legal insights, build powerful tools, and enhance existing systems. With this data at your fingertips, you can streamline research, case tracking, and client analysis, driving smarter decisions in a data-driven legal landscape.
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The Marketing API empowers your teams with centralized, actionable data for client outreach and lead generation. By leveraging court and case data, teams can create more targeted campaigns and personalized communication, driving business growth. Used across both legal and non-legal sectors, this API supports the development of data-driven strategies that enhance outreach, track trends, and create new business opportunities.
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Trellis’ Trial Court Data API enables seamless communication between software applications and legal databases. The API connects your systems to an extensive database of millions of State, Federal, and Bankruptcy trial court cases and documents across thousands of jurisdictions, including PACER.
Trellis provides a comprehensive suite of API endpoints including case, party, county, document, and judicial rulings for State, Federal, and Bankruptcy trial court cases in jurisdictions across the nation. PACER API and other tailored endpoints are also available to meet specific legal data needs.
With the Trial Court Data API, you can conduct case, judge, document, and metadata searches, download court records, set alerts for tracking cases and topics, and receive daily case updates, among many other tasks.
The Trial Court Data API provides access to the most extensive state trial court data available, as well as federal, district, and bankruptcy courts. Additional coverage information is availablehere.
The Trial Court Data API supports key functions for enterprise businesses like law firms, real estate, financial institutions, and insurance companies. They utilize the API for case research, client pitching, business development, marketing, lead generation, due diligence, and more.
The Trial Court Data API can integrate seamlessly with all internal systems like case and matter management platforms, CRMs, document management systems, intranets, and internal databases.
Yes, integration is straightforward. Trellis offers sample code, documentation, and dedicated support to help integrate the API with your applications.
Trellis provides unsurpassed coverage of the state trial court system, combined with extensive Federal court data to support comprehensive litigation insights, centralized information and intelligence, and highly efficient workflows.
Customer Testimonials
“Trellis is our firm’s ‘secret sauce’ when litigating in state trial courts. We use it all the time with new cases to access important data points with high internal adoption. The litigation analytics and search capabilities on the platform are essential to securing better results for our clients.”
- Lonny Zilberman, Partner, Wilson Turner Kosmo
"Trellis has stepped in to provide insights into judges, giving more robust and empirical sourcing into what was once mere anecdote"
- Dean Walters, Assistant Director - Content, Harvard Law School
“Trellis has truly been a game changer for us, saving countless hours and streamlining our work. We cannot praise the Trellis platform enough for its exceptional capabilities!”
- Miguel Aristizabal, Partner, Clayton Trial Lawyers
"The information in Trellis changed my cases from being on defense to offense. Trellis is an essential tool for litigators."
- Jack M. Rubin, Counsel, Newmeyer & Dillion
"Trellis has been a game-changer for our civil trial practice. Before Trellis, searching trial dockets was difficult and cumbersome. With Trellis, however, we can instantly search every filing, in every Florida trial docket, to find exactly what we need all in one place."
- Landon Stinson, Esq., Managing Attorney, Beacon Legal PLLC
“The fact that Trellis is a solid state court resource makes it incredibly meaningful to our firm all the way around. We use the platform to get into state court data, filings and dockets across the country from a single point of access, with analytics layered on top. Trellis has been huge for us. It’s been a really good relationship, they are the best game in town.”
- Amy Carr, Senior Manager Knowledge Management, Bowman and Brooke
"Trellis technology can help attorneys identify the likelihood of success of legal motions so that they can make informed decisions about the best manner in which to proceed."
- Markus Johnson, Board, Marquette University Law School
"Clearly there's a use case for using Trellis and Law Firm Litigation Insights for business development. What's more, Law Firm Litigation Insights is almost like a wellness check for firms in terms of their overall litigation health. Where are we good, and where do we need some help?"
- Marlene Gebauer, Geek in Review Host, Assistant Director Innovation, Mayer Brown
"Once you learn how to use Trellis it makes an attorney's job much easier - and that's the goal. You're now looking into the mindsets of opposing counsel, judges and juries at the tips of your fingertips online, and it is just unbelievable to think how far we've come from being back in the stacks with the books."
- Benny Gold, Executive Director, North Central Massachusetts Housing Authorities, Host, Lawyer Stories Podcast
"The Judge Analytics function has been very useful in connection with bringing critical motions and conducting trials in getting a feel for the Court's inclinations with respect to specialized issues."
- Jason E.Guerra, Founding Principal Attorney & Lead Counsel, Guerra Law
"With Trellis, state trial court data is searchable like never before. Trellis is a really fast way to get a broad sense of your case and then jump to a specific ruling."
- H. Bakken, Reference Librarian, San Diego Law Library
"Trellis focuses on state coverage, includes state judge analytics, and aims to make state trial courts and legal data more accessible and transparent. In fact, Trellis aims to be so transparent that it’s made its coverage publicly available."
- Michelle Penn, Editor, Colorado Lawyer
"Whether we want to contrast different courts to view how judges have ruled on similar motions, see how specific legal issues are decided, or gain competitive insights on opposing counsel, Trellis assists our Library with strategic state trial court comparison analytics.”
- Brian Cassidy, Student Services Librarian, Cleveland State University Law Library
We Cover More State Trial Courts Than Anyone Else
Trellis covers 45 states and 3,335 courts in 2,479 counties across the U.S.

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