About

The Well is a free-to-read database of how federal and California state judges run their courtrooms — standing orders, filing preferences, motion practice cadence, and oral argument tendencies. The data is maintained by verified California-barred attorneys who contribute observations anonymously.

The information is already public. Standing orders are on court websites. Local rules are free. But finding, reading, and cross-referencing those documents for 150 judges takes a week of work nobody has time to do. The Well changes that.

Licenses

• Code: AGPL-3.0.
• Data & schema: CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Maintainer

The Well is maintained by Zachary Brenner and the open-source community.