Legal writing for attorneys
Research, analysis, and drafting, delivered for the attorney’s review and signature.
Note: Altiorem’s services are for attorneys. If you are a non-attorney seeking support for your case, Altiorem can help direct you to someone who may be able to help.
What Altiorem does
Altiorem Legal Services
Altiorem drafts legal documents for attorneys: pleadings, motions, briefs, memoranda, letters, and forms, in state and federal courts. The attorney provides the essential facts and instructions; Altiorem does the research, the analysis, and the writing, and returns a finished draft for the attorney’s review. Work samples are provided upon request.
Areas of work
Altiorem is knowledgeable and experienced in various areas of law and legal procedures, including the following:
- Criminal Law matters, with knowledge and experience.
- Various areas of Civil Law, such as,
- civil rights litigation;
- torts, whether intentional, negligent, or predicated upon strict liability—Including actionable causes such as personal injury, fraud, defamation, malpractice, products liability, conversion, trespasses, and more;
- family law.
Process
When a matter raises an unfamiliar issue, Altiorem says so, does the research, and shows its work. Every assignment follows the same steps:
- Scope: document, court, and deadline set first.
- Record: each fact tied to its page in the file.
- Research: controlling, adverse, and later authority.
- Verification: every citation and quotation checked.
- Drafting: verified material only; gaps stay marked.
- Review: the finished draft is checked again.
- Delivery: authorities identified, so the attorney can check the reasoning before relying on it.
Altiorem's Legal Writing Services
Professional legal writing support for diverse legal needs, including case analysis, legal research, and legal document drafting, ensuring accuracy and affordability in every legal writing project.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Attorneys who have relied on Altiorem’s work have described it in letters of recommendation. What follows is a summary of what they wrote. It reflects their experience on their own matters; it is not a promise about any other matter.
The work itself. The letters describe Altiorem’s documents as accurate in their legal analysis, well reasoned, persuasive, and polished in presentation. The work has also been compared to that of experienced attorneys. Altiorem mentions that comparison only because the recommenders made it; it is their judgment, not Altiorem’s.
Research and analysis. Recommenders point to research that finds the relevant and binding authority, analysis that applies that authority carefully to the facts, and sound approaches to issues that were new to the case.
Reliability. The letters describe Altiorem as dependable: able to work from essential instructions with little supervision, and able to carry several assignments and deadlines at once without the quality slipping.
Working relationship. Recommenders describe Altiorem as clear, professional, and responsive, with a positive manner and a genuine interest in the law.
Effect on their cases. Recommenders wrote that Altiorem’s work made a real difference in the proceedings of their cases, and they gave Altiorem their strongest recommendation.
Altiorem is grateful for those words and treats them as a standard to keep meeting. Every matter is different, and its outcome depends on the facts, the law, and the attorney’s judgment.
What to Expect
Attorneys can expect careful, accurate drafting; plain communication about what a document needs and how long it will take; and fair, predictable pricing.
How Altiorem works
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Need a document drafted?
Getting started
Describe the document needed, and Altiorem will say plainly whether it can help.
An attorney who needs a document researched or drafted can write to Altiorem with the facts and the deadline, and will get a straight answer on whether Altiorem can help, and at what cost.