Questions and answers
What firms ask before the first piece
Short answers on cost, timeline, control, confidentiality, AI tools, tracking and use at trial. The rules and opinions behind the safeguards are linked on How it works.
What is a scrollbrief?
A scrollbrief is a legal case presented as a private scrolling web page. The visuals change as the reader moves through the argument, and every factual claim opens the page of the record it comes from. It ships with a PDF twin for the claim file, the mediator or the court.
How is a scrollbrief different from a settlement documentary video?
A video asks the other side to sit and watch. A scrollbrief lets them skim, jump to the damages, and check each source at their own pace. It can carry your video clips inside it, along with the documents, timelines and numbers a video leaves out.
Why a scrolling page instead of a video or a slide deck?
Because the reader can pace it, check it and work it by hand. A video has a fixed runtime and no footnotes. A slide deck needs its presenter. A scrollbrief lets an adjuster, mediator or judge skim to the number, open the record behind any line, and run a timeline or a clock themselves. Learning research finds people learn better from learner-paced segments, and from words set beside their pictures.
Is a scrollbrief a settlement demand package?
Yes, in interactive form. It carries what a settlement demand package or settlement brochure carries: liability, the medical chronology, damages and the ask. The demand letter still goes out under counsel’s signature, and the scrollbrief travels with it as a private link and a PDF twin.
Can it go out with a policy-limits or time-limited demand?
Yes, as the presentation that supports the demand. Counsel writes and sends the letter with the terms the governing rules call for. The scrollbrief shows the liability and damages behind the number, with each fact linked to the record.
Do you make settlement documentaries or day-in-the-life videos?
No. Scrollbrief does not shoot film. If a firm has a day-in-the-life video, a settlement documentary or deposition clips, they are placed inside the piece beside the records that support them.
Do you make medical illustrations, accident reconstructions or run trial presentation in court?
No. Medical illustration, 3D accident reconstruction and in-court trial presentation are specialist trades. Their work can sit inside a scrollbrief, and the firm’s trial technician presents the visuals in the courtroom.
How much does a scrollbrief cost?
Demand pieces run $7,500 to $15,000. Mediation and trial packages start at $20,000. Sentencing pieces run $5,000 to $15,000. Each is a flat fee billed to the firm, half up front.
How long does it take?
A demand piece takes about 10 business days from the day the file arrives. A mediation and trial package takes three to four weeks. A sentencing piece takes two to three weeks.
Who controls the content?
The attorney does. Scrollbrief works as the firm’s vendor. The attorney sets the theme and the ask, approves the outline, reviews a cite table listing every claim and its source, and signs off before anything is sent.
How do you handle confidential records?
Scrollbrief signs confidentiality terms with each firm and follows any protective order in the case. Pieces are hosted on a private link that search engines cannot index, with no third-party scripts. On the agreed takedown date the link closes and working files are deleted.
Do you use AI tools on client files?
Only the tools the firm has approved in writing for that matter. ABA Formal Opinion 512 calls for informed client consent before client information goes into a self-learning AI tool, so the approval is settled before any file arrives.
Can we see whether the other side opened it?
Scrollbrief does not put hidden tracking on anything sent to an opposing party. Ethics opinions in several states, including Arizona, bar hidden trackers on communications to opposing counsel. If a firm wants a view log, it is disclosed on the page itself.
Can a scrollbrief be used at trial?
Its visuals can be prepared as trial graphics. Federal Rule of Evidence 107, in effect since December 1, 2024, covers illustrative aids: a judge may allow one that helps the jury understand the evidence, weighed against the risk of misleading. State courts follow their own rules on demonstrative exhibits, and trial counsel decides what is offered.
What does the adjuster, mediator or judge actually receive?
A private link that works on a phone, tablet or desktop, and a PDF twin with the same content. The PDF goes in the claim file or is lodged with the court the way counsel chooses.
Do you work for a percentage of the recovery?
No. Every engagement is a flat fee. Ethics opinions treat pay tied to a percentage of a settlement as fee-splitting with a nonlawyer, and a flat fee keeps the firm clear of that question.
Which case types do you take?
Personal injury and wrongful death, including trucking, auto, premises liability, product liability, medical malpractice and nursing home cases; civil-rights cases under Section 1983; public-interest litigation; and criminal sentencing. The form fits any matter where the record is strong and the story is hard to see in a stack of documents.
Is Scrollbrief a law firm?
No. Scrollbrief is a litigation-support studio. It does not give legal advice or represent clients, and every piece is made under the direction of the attorney on the matter.
Scrollbrief is not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice. Questions about ethics rules in your jurisdiction belong with your firm’s ethics counsel.