Process and safeguards
How a Scrollbrief is built
Every piece follows the same ten steps, the same seven beats and the same safeguards. A demand piece takes about 10 business days from the day the file arrives.
Ten steps, first call to takedown
- Call. You describe the matter. We decide together whether the form fits.
- Paperwork. Engagement letter, confidentiality terms, written approval of any AI tools, and the protective-order acknowledgment if the case has one.
- File transfer. The record arrives by the secure route your firm already uses.
- Story conference. The attorney sets the theme and the ask.
- Outline. Seven beats, each line cited to the record. The attorney approves it before any building starts.
- Build. The page, its visuals and the PDF twin.
- Cite check. Every claim and every graphic is listed against its source in a cite table.
- Sign-off. The attorney reviews the piece and the cite table and approves or revises.
- Delivery. A private link and the PDF twin, sent by the firm.
- Takedown. On the agreed date the link closes and working files are deleted.
The seven beats
The order is the method. A reader who doubts beat three can open its sources before reading beat four.
- The person. Who this happened to, in one screen.
- What happened. The timeline, slowed down where it matters.
- Why it happened. The other side’s choices, shown in their own documents.
- What they knew. Prior notice, policies, warnings, comparable cases.
- The harm. What changed in a life, with the records behind it.
- The numbers. Damages, comparables or the sentencing range, each with its source.
- The ask. One specific number or outcome, and why it is fair.
A sentencing piece keeps the first and last beats and rebuilds the middle around change, witnesses and a plan.
What ships with every piece
- A private link: password or unique address, hidden from search engines, no third-party scripts.
- A record citation on every factual claim, opening the cited page of the source document.
- A PDF twin with the same content for the claim file, the mediator or the court.
- Phone, tablet and desktop layouts, plus a screen-reader pass.
- A cite table for the attorney: every claim, its source, and a sign-off line.
- A takedown date, after which the link closes and working files are deleted.
Safeguards, and the rules behind them
The attorney directs
Scrollbrief is a vendor working under the supervision of the lawyer on the matter. Counsel decides the content, the tone, and what is sent to whom.
Flat fees only
Ethics opinions treat pay tied to a percentage of a settlement as fee-splitting with a nonlawyer. WSBA Advisory Opinion 2126 Every Scrollbrief engagement is a flat fee billed to the firm.
AI tools by written approval
ABA Formal Opinion 512, issued July 29, 2024, calls for a client’s informed consent before information about the representation goes into a self-learning AI tool. Minnesota Lawyer on ABA Formal Opinion 512 Each firm approves in writing which tools may touch its files, before any file arrives.
No hidden tracking
Ethics opinions in Alaska, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania bar hidden trackers on communications to opposing counsel. Detroit Legal News on email tracking opinions An Arizona opinion requires the recipient’s informed consent. Arizona ethics opinion EO-20-0008 A scrollbrief sent to an opposing party carries no covert analytics. If a firm wants a view log, the page says so in plain words.
Accuracy
A judge can refuse an aid that misleads. Trial Magazine on Rule 107 Every claim cites the record, scales are drawn true, and the other side’s best facts appear on the page.
Confidentiality
Scrollbrief signs confidentiality terms with each firm and follows any protective order in the case. Pieces are hosted privately and working files are deleted at takedown.
Public samples
Samples on this site use closed public cases or labeled composites with invented facts. No client matter appears here.