Know your odds before you spend on an appeal.

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.

No. Second Look reviews any order, judgment or opinion from a Georgia court, in any kind of case: debt, contract, family, landlord-tenant, personal injury, probate, employment and more. Debt Defender and ValiDebt are our separate products for debt lawsuits and collector letters.

Upload the order, judgment or opinion and leave an email, and we send you a page you can keep and print: the court and the case, the judge, what kind of order it is and what it decided, the date it was signed and the date it was entered, and a count of the 30 days to appeal from the date read on the order. It ends with what an attorney's Quick Screen would add for your order, and nothing is paid to see any of it. It is general information prepared automatically, not legal advice, no attorney has reviewed it, and it does not say whether an appeal would succeed. The date is our count, not a confirmed deadline, and an attorney confirms every deadline.

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.

We keep the order and the email so the page can be shown to you and so, if you start a review, you do not upload the order again. If you do not continue, the recap, the order and your email are deleted 30 days after you asked for it. The order is read by software, and no attorney reads it unless you become a client.

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.

A licensed Georgia attorney reviews, edits and approves the written opinion before you see it; until then it is not sent. Every review is by an attorney under the same agreement, and there is no self-service version.

The final order or a single pleading is enough to start. If we need more of the record, we ask for it, from you, opposing counsel, or the court. Record retrieval fees are third-party costs, billed separately at cost.

It depends on how much of the record the review covers. Quick Screen: 3–5 business days. Standard Memo: 7–10 business days. Comprehensive Review: 14–21 business days, depending on record length. You get an emailed roadmap with the key dates right away, and the attorney confirms them.

Yes. Every review ends with a call with the attorney to go through the opinion and your questions: 15 minutes on Quick Screen, 30 minutes on Standard Memo, 60 minutes on Comprehensive Review. The written opinion comes first, so you have read it before the call.

We check what the file is before anything is kept. If it is a lawsuit complaint or a letter from a debt collector rather than a court order, judgment or opinion, we say so and point you to the free page built for that paper where one is available: Debt Defender's free case analysis for a complaint, ValiDebt's free notice analysis for a collector's letter. Nothing from the wrong page is saved.

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.

The fee is flat* and set by the review you choose: Quick Screen, $1,000; Standard Memo, $2,000; Comprehensive Review, $3,000. Move up a tier, or engage us for the appeal, and your review fee is credited. Court filing fees, court reporter and transcript fees, record retrieval fees, and other third-party costs are billed separately, at cost.

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.