Frequently Asked Questions

Second Look is a pre-appeal case review for Georgia court cases. You upload the judgment or order and your account of the case, and a licensed Georgia attorney gives you a written opinion on whether an appeal is worth pursuing, before you spend far more on one. It is a review, not an appeal: we do not file anything with the court as part of it.

In most Georgia civil cases, a notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days after the judgment or order is entered. Some orders and some courts have different rules, and missing the deadline can end your right to appeal. If you are close to it, tell us when you start. Your emailed roadmap lists the key dates for your case, and the attorney confirms them.

The judgment or order you are thinking of appealing, and a short written summary of what happened. Higher tiers also use the motions, briefs, and transcript if you have them. If you are missing something, say so and we will tell you what matters most.

Quick Screen is typically 3 to 5 business days. The other tiers take longer because they cover more of the record, and the tier page gives the typical turnaround for each. You get an emailed roadmap right away.

Directly, and we'd rather be upfront about it than pretend otherwise: AI-assisted tools do the first pass — organizing the record and drafting a starting memo — in a fraction of the time that would otherwise take hours of billable work. Every draft is then reviewed, edited, and personally approved by a licensed attorney before it's ever sent to you. The tools change how fast you get an answer; they don't change who's accountable for it.

Quick Screen is the fast, high-level read when you just lost and want to know whether an appeal deserves a closer look. Standard Memo is the full pre-appeal memo when you are seriously weighing an appeal and need to know which issues are strong and whether they were preserved. Comprehensive Review is for cases with a lot at stake or that turn on what was said at a hearing or trial, tested against the actual record. Each tier page lists exactly what is and is not included.

The memo you receive is legal analysis prepared for you as part of a limited-scope engagement, reviewed and approved by a licensed Georgia attorney before delivery. It is not general information — it's a specific assessment of your case. General content on this website, by contrast, is informational only and not legal advice.

No. An attorney-client relationship for the case review is formed only after you complete the conflict check and sign the limited-scope engagement agreement, before any document upload is enabled.

We run a conflict check against the parties in your case before any documents are uploaded. If a conflict exists, we'll let you know and won't proceed with a review.

Documents are uploaded to encrypted, access-controlled storage and are only used for your case review. They are not shared with third parties.

You can choose to engage us for full appellate representation. The review fee is credited toward that engagement.

We'll tell you plainly, along with the reasoning. Many litigants find real value in knowing that before spending far more on a full appeal.

No. No attorney honestly can. The review tells you how strong the issues look and how likely an appeal is to be worth it, and why. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.