For State's Attorney, District Attorney and Attorney General offices, from traffic and misdemeanors to felonies

Everything a prosecutor needs, already connected.

Legal Binders puts your office's best-practice knowledge in one place and links it the way a prosecutor thinks about a case — statute to elements to the cases that decide them, beside your office's own approved documents.

Built first on Maryland law — now available in 10 states and federal districts.

Second-degree assault
Criminal Law §3-203
Misdemeanor or felony

Maryland Code, Criminal Law § 3-203, official text:

(a) A person may not commit an assault.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a person who violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of the misdemeanor of assault in the second degree and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 or both.

(c) (1) In this subsection, “physical injury” means any impairment of physical condition, excluding minor injuries.

(2) A person may not intentionally cause physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is:

(i) a law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of the officer’s official duties;

(ii) a parole or probation agent engaged in the performance of the agent’s official duties; or …

[Truncated for Demonstration]

In the binder, the official text is held on the site and checked weekly for changes.

  1. The defendant caused offensive physical contact or physical harm, attempted to, or intentionally placed the victim in fear of immediate harm
  2. The contact or act was intentional and not accidental
  3. The contact was not consented to and not legally justified

Your office links judges to the binders for the case types they hear.

[Fictional judges for demonstration]

A working example. Tap any row, then any case, to see the detail.

Bindersorganized by case type
Jurisdictions10 states and federal
Statutesofficial, checked weekly
Court opinionsheld in full on the site
Motionsdrafted, with responses
Courtsstate and federal
Judgesfrom official sources
From statute1 clickto elements to case law

The problem

Every office already owns this knowledge. It's just scattered.

New prosecutors lose months

An incoming Assistant State's Attorney spends their first months learning where everything is instead of trying cases.

Veterans hoard notes

Your most experienced prosecutors keep private notebooks no one else can access — notebooks that walk out the door when they leave.

The law sits apart from the work

Statutes, elements, controlling cases and the office's own motions live in separate places, so nothing points to anything else.

Why not share one best-practice standard with the entire team?

Linked, not listed

Open a statute, and everything that bears on it is one click away.

Each case shows who won, what the defense argued, and how the State uses it. The chain runs both ways — from a charge to the cases that decide it, and back.

  1. StatuteOfficial text, verified weekly
  2. ElementsWhat the State must prove
  3. What the court must findBefore it can act
  4. Case lawHoldings in plain English
  5. Common motionsState and defense, with drafts
  6. Your documentsOutlines, plea guidance, policies
See how a binder is built →

Why you can rely on it

Verified at the source

Statute text is pulled from the official legislative site and checked every week for changes. Citations are checked against the source.

Full opinions, held on-site

The complete court opinion is on the site — not a link that rots — each with its holding in plain English and how the State uses it.

Approved before anyone sees it

The library arrives as a prepared starting point. Your office's Approvers review and approve each binder before your attorneys can open it.

A Motions Best Practices library unique to your office

Every binder comes with pre-drafted motions and responses for the charges it covers, each citing the verified cases in the binder. Your office edits them to its own practice, adds its own, and hides any it does not use, so every prosecutor files from the same approved template, completed with the details of the case at hand.

Your office sets the rules

Profiles decide what each person sees. Roles decide what they can change.

Administrator

Manages binders, profiles, roles and invitations.

Editor

Creates folders and adds the office's documents.

Approver

Reviews and approves content before it goes live.

Attorney

Reads the binders in their profile.

New: the Judges binder

Know the judge before you walk in.

A folder for every judge in your jurisdiction, with the public facts from official sources, your office's approved Do's and Don'ts, and statistics from your own record of rulings and bench trial findings.

A directory from official sources

A folder for every judge in your jurisdiction: court, title, term and appointment, each fact shown with the official court or government page it came from and the date it was checked. We state only what the official source publishes, and each profile links to the state's judicial conduct body rather than characterizing any judge.

Your office's Do's and Don'ts

Editors write practical guidance for each judge, from courtroom habits to how they like argument presented. An Approver approves it before attorneys see it, and every change goes back for approval.

Rulings and bench trial findings

After a hearing, an attorney records the motion and the ruling, or each charge and the finding when the judge sat without a jury, in under a minute from a phone. Administrators can upload past results from a spreadsheet so trends start with your history.

Statistics that respect small numbers

How often each judge grants each kind of motion, conviction and lesser-offense rates at bench trials, and how they change by quarter. Fewer than 10 entries shows the counts alone, never a misleading percentage.

Hon. Jordan ExampleAssociate Judge, District Court
Term ends
2034
Source
State judiciary directory, checked this month

Do

  • Arrive early; the docket is called promptly.
  • Have exhibits premarked with copies for the court.

Don't

  • Re-argue a point once the court has ruled.

Your office's record

Motion to suppress (Defense)Granted 2 of 6 Too few to judge a pattern

An illustration with a fictional judge.
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