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Posts on litigation, discovery, records, tools, and the habits that turn a difficult file into something counsel can use.

August 14, 2026

Hire Me: I'll Bring Enough for the Whole Class (Action).

A developed Virginia live-check theory against Mariner Finance: the $3,510 check, the $150 fee rolled into a $3,660 “Principal Amount,” the statute that caps that fee, and why the pending multistate AG case does not occupy the claim.

Consumer Finance · Investigation · Mass Litigation

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August 11, 2026

Auditing an Audit Trail: Y'all Forgot to Run Spellcheck on Your Faked Documents

How a signature mismatch led to a debt-verification fight, a lender-branded “audit trail,” and a stack of forensic tells—from SMS delivery and EST timestamps to PDF metadata naming melissa and shelbi.

Investigation · E-SIGN · Consumer Debt

Annotated Sun Loan Funding, Ltd. Audit Trail with callouts on timestamps, icons, missing certificate features, and IP gaps

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August 9, 2026

This Boring Policy is Insanely Important

The file-naming convention you should implement to save time and avoid headaches.

Litigation Ops · File Systems · Tools

Naming files like the case matters — diagram of a consistent litigation file-naming convention

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July 14, 2026

Why Good Discovery Starts Before You Ask for Anything

The best discovery requests are built on a theory of the record—what should exist, who would have it, and what its absence would mean.

Discovery · Investigation

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June 28, 2026

Turning Mountains of Documents into Case Strength

Volume is not the problem. Structure is. A large production becomes useful only when it can be searched, compared, and argued from.

Discovery · Tools

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May 19, 2026

Notes on Curiosity, Records, and the Case That Matters

Curiosity finds the question. Persistence finishes the search. The case gets stronger when both stay tied to the record.

Method

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