Paid email courses on court records, judicial accountability, and institutional forensics. The methodology behind three years of Clutch Justice investigations — made teachable.
Each course is a structured sequence of lessons delivered directly to your inbox — with quizzes at the end of every lesson and a certificate when you finish.
Five courses. Two free resources. Start with the records. End with the system.
Buying courses one at a time adds up. Clutch Confidential members get every course on this page, current and future, plus every tool in The Field Kit, free, for as long as they're a member. Not discounted. Included.
Membership also includes The Clutch Briefing, a monthly members-only report on the patterns Clutch is tracking before they're public knowledge, and a direct vote in what Clutch investigates and covers next.
Join Clutch Confidential — $10/month →Two free resources to help you get oriented — templates and guides you can use right now.
I've spent three years reading Michigan court dockets, ADB filings, JTC records, and judicial conduct files as primary source material for published investigations. Not as a lawyer. As a researcher who had to figure out these systems from the outside and document every step of how they actually work — versus how they're supposed to.
These courses are the methodology made teachable. Everything in them comes from that fieldwork: the docket patterns, the ADB cross-referencing, the SCAO statistical analysis, the four-layer accountability framework. It's not licensed content. It's not repackaged legal education. It's the map I built by using the records.
Read more about Rita →Everything you need to read a Michigan court record, navigate the accountability system, and build a documentary case picture is in these courses. The methodology is the product.