Clutch Justice is launching a series of paid email courses on court records, judicial accountability, and institutional forensics. The first course, How to Read a Court Record, opens enrollment now. Use code CLUTCH25 for 25% off introductory pricing.
Why Email Courses, and Why Now
For three years, Clutch Justice has published investigative reporting on Michigan courts, judicial discipline, and institutional accountability. The readership that has built around that work is not passive. Readers send tips, ask procedural questions, and want to understand not just what happened in a given case, but how to read the record themselves.
That demand created a gap. The reporting answers specific questions about specific actors. It does not teach the underlying methodology. Court records are public documents. Michigan Attorney Discipline Board filings are public documents. Federal dockets are public documents. Most people cannot use them, not because the information is hidden, but because nobody taught them how the system is organized or what to look for.
The email course format exists to close that gap. The courses are not general civic education. They are methodology transfer, the same research frameworks that underlie Clutch Justice investigations, broken into teachable units and delivered directly to your inbox.
How the Courses Work
Each course is a paid email sequence, purchased once and delivered over a set number of days. There is no separate platform, no login, and no app. Lessons arrive in your inbox on a schedule, with supplementary materials linked directly from each email.
Payment is processed securely at checkout. Once your purchase is confirmed, you are automatically enrolled in the course sequence and the first lesson goes out within 24 hours.
The courses are standalone purchases. A free Clutch Justice newsletter subscription is not required to enroll, though subscribers receive priority notice of new course releases and occasional subscriber-only discounts.
Each lesson is designed to be read in 10 to 15 minutes, with a defined skill or framework at the end of it. The goal is not to produce paralegal training. The goal is to produce people who can open a court docket, an ADB discipline record, or a judicial conduct file and understand what they are looking at.
First Up: How to Read a Court Record
The inaugural course addresses the most common research barrier Clutch Justice readers report: knowing that a court record exists, but not knowing how to use it.
The course is priced at $59 for introductory enrollment. Early enrollees receive the full six-lesson sequence, a supplementary resource sheet with direct links to Michigan court record systems, and first access to subsequent course releases at subscriber pricing.
Claim Your Introductory Discount
Enter this code at checkout for 25% off How to Read a Court Record. Reduces enrollment from $59 to $44.25. No subscription required. One use per customer. Available until the introductory period closes.
Enroll Now ?What’s Coming Next
The course catalog is being built in order of demand and mission relevance. Three additional courses are in active development.
Michigan Judicial Accountability Field Guide maps the oversight system as it is designed to work, covering the Judicial Tenure Commission, SCAO, the Attorney Discipline Board, and the Michigan Supreme Court. The course explains how complaints move through the system, what each sanction type actually means in practice, and how to read a discipline record for what it does not say as much as what it does. Pricing will be in the $79 to $99 range.
Institutional Forensics 101 is the methodology course, translating the research frameworks behind Clutch Justice investigations into a teachable structure. It covers public records requests, FOIA strategy, filing pattern analysis, and how to build an institutional picture from documentary sources. This one is priced as a professional development resource, in the $99 to $149 range, and is designed to be useful for journalists, advocates, and legal professionals.
Legal AI Literacy for Advocates and Journalists addresses the intersection that is generating the most misinformation in legal contexts right now. The course covers how large language models interact with legal text, where hallucination risk is highest in court research applications, and what courts are currently doing with AI policy. Pricing in the $79 to $129 range.
All courses are developed from original Clutch Justice reporting and research. None of this is licensed content or repackaged legal education material. The methodology is the product, and the methodology comes from three years of working Michigan court records, discipline filings, and accountability investigations in the field.
How to Stay Informed
Course launch announcements go to the Clutch Justice subscriber list first. Subscribers also receive priority access to discount codes and advance notice when new course slots open. The enrollment page at clutchjustice.com/courses will maintain current availability and pricing as the catalog grows.
Questions about courses, bulk enrollment for organizations, or institutional licensing inquiries can go to hello@clutchjustice.com.
Sources and Documentation
Rita Williams, Clutch Justice Is Launching Paid Email Courses — Here’s What’s Coming and How to Get in Early, Clutch Justice (Apr. 17, 2026), https://clutchjustice.com/clutch-justice-paid-email-courses-launch/.
Williams, R. (2026, April 17). Clutch Justice is launching paid email courses — here’s what’s coming and how to get in early. Clutch Justice. https://clutchjustice.com/clutch-justice-paid-email-courses-launch/
Williams, Rita. “Clutch Justice Is Launching Paid Email Courses — Here’s What’s Coming and How to Get in Early.” Clutch Justice, 17 Apr. 2026, clutchjustice.com/clutch-justice-paid-email-courses-launch/.
Williams, Rita. “Clutch Justice Is Launching Paid Email Courses — Here’s What’s Coming and How to Get in Early.” Clutch Justice, April 17, 2026. https://clutchjustice.com/clutch-justice-paid-email-courses-launch/.
