The Morning Court Brief is one of CaliforniaCourtIntel's most-used features. It is an automated daily intelligence email that prepares you for every hearing you have scheduled that day. Here is exactly how it works.
What triggers the brief. The brief generates automatically on any day you have at least one hearing in your CaliforniaCourtIntel calendar with an assigned judge. If you have no hearings on a given day, no brief is sent. The brief is sent only to the account owner on Solo and Pro plans, and to each individual attorney based on their own hearing calendar on Firm and Enterprise plans.
How it is assembled. At 5:30 AM Pacific, the brief engine runs for every account with hearings that day. For each hearing, it: (1) Fetches the latest tentative ruling if the court has published one. (2) Pulls the judge's ruling statistics for the specific motion type of your hearing. (3) Queries the AI narrative for that judge filtered to the motion type. (4) Generates talking points based on the judge's ruling patterns and your hearing type. (5) Compiles the local rules summary for that department. The entire brief is assembled fresh each morning from the most current available data.
Delivery time. The default delivery is 6:00 AM Pacific. You can change this to any time between 5:00 AM and 8:00 AM in Settings, then Notifications, then Morning Court Brief.
The brief email. The email contains a table of contents listing all your hearings for the day, then a full section for each hearing. Each section has: hearing time and location, judge name and department, motion type, ruling tendency summary, latest tentative (or 'Not yet posted' if none is available), three to five talking points, risk flags, and local rules highlights.
Accessing the brief in-app. Every brief sent is also stored in your dashboard. Go to Hearings in the sidebar and click Morning Briefs to see all past and current-day briefs. This is useful if you missed the email or want to reference it from the courtroom.
When no brief is generated. If a hearing has no assigned judge, the brief engine skips that hearing. Always assign a judge when creating a hearing to ensure the full brief is generated. If the judge profile has very limited data, the brief will note this and provide a shorter entry.