Put Mitch Jackson—an AV-rated trial lawyer and trusted confidential sounding board—with 40 years of experience, in your corner.
Named Orange County Trial Lawyer of the Year and California Litigation Lawyer of the Year, Mitch gives you a strategic advantage few lawyers ever have access to.
Ask anything. Challenge assumptions. Pressure-test every move before it reaches your client, partner, or the courtroom.
Avoid costly mistakes, sharpen your judgment, and accelerate your growth far beyond what experience alone could ever deliver.
Law school taught you to think. It did not teach you what to do when a real case lands on your desk and a real client or senior partner is counting on you.
You learned the rule against perpetuities. You never learned how to read the room in a mediation, how to frame a motion so the judge wants to grant it, or how to walk into your partner's office with work that makes them trust you with more.
So you do what every new lawyer does. You guess. You stay late. You hope the senior associate has five minutes. You send the motion and wait to find out, in front of everyone, whether you got it right.
There is a faster way. It is the same way the best lawyers have always gotten good. They had someone in their corner who had already made the mistakes for them.
A blown deadline. A discovery response that hands the other side your case. A settlement you took because you did not know what the file was really worth. A trial strategy that felt right and fell apart in front of a jury.
You will survive these. Most lawyers do. But each one costs you something that compounds: a client's outcome, a partner's confidence, and months of the reputation you are trying to build right now in your first few years, when people are deciding who you are.
Here is the hard truth. The lawyers who pull ahead are rarely the smartest in the room. They are the ones who stopped trying to figure it out alone.
A confidential relationship with yours truly, a veteran trial lawyer who works quietly in your corner, on your terms, whenever you need an answer.
I founded my trial firm in 1986. I have tried more than 70 cases to verdict, served as a Judge Pro Tem and a private mediator, and spent close to four decades learning what actually works when the stakes are real. I built Top Secret Partner to hand that experience to you directly.
Here is the difference, and it matters. I am not a course. I am not a forum full of strangers. I am one experienced lawyer you can confidentially reach by phone, text, email, WhatsApp, Signal (my favorite) or any other method that works for both of us, who has very likely already handled the exact issue keeping you up tonight.
You do the work. You make the call. You stay counsel of record on your own matters. I help you see around the corner before you commit, so the work you put your name on is sharper, cleaner, and more confident than anything you would have produced alone.
When you reach out, you reach an award-winning experienced trial lawyer whose record and recognitions are a matter of public record. This is the experience working behind the scenes for you.
I have also spent the last several years teaching lawyers how to pair this experience with modern tools, including authoring several books showing lawyers how to combine human intelligence with artificial intelligence. You get my new state-of-the-art insights blended with traditional courtroom judgment allowing you to work better, faster and while creating more meaningful cient experiences.
This is what you reach for the moment a question hits. No scheduling a meeting. No reinventing the legal wheel. You ask, I answer, you move.
One avoided mistake. One better settlement. One motion that lands. A better impression with the decision makers in your firm. Any single one pays for a year.
Once payment is processed you will receive an email with all details and contact options.
Here is my promise to you. From the day you join, you stop carrying the hard cases alone. You get me in your corner for the full year, a direct line to someone who has probably already handled what is coming at you, and you can lean on it as hard as you need. I review every application myself, so the lawyers in this program are people I choose to work with and commit to. A year is not a trial. It is the time it takes to actually change how you practice, and I will be there for all of it. You already know what going it alone costs you. This is the right call, and the lawyer you become a year from now will know it.
The value of this program is that I actually answer you. That only works if I am not stretched across hundreds of members. I cap membership so I can stay genuinely responsive to every lawyer in the program. When the roster is full, new applications wait for an opening.
If a spot is open today, you will be able to click and take it (but only after you apply and your membership is approved). If the payment button is grey, I am not taking new memberships at this time but can put you on the waiting list.
Yes. Lawyers consult more experienced lawyers constantly. That is how the profession has always worked. You remain counsel of record on your matters, you exercise your own independent judgment, and you make every decision. Nothing in this program creates an attorney-client relationship with your clients or replaces your professional responsibility. I am a confidential resource, the same way a seasoned colleague down the hall would be.
Carefully and the same way a mediator or arbitrator does. I screen for real and potential conflicts before we engage on a particular matter, and I never disclose who is in the program. If a conflict exists, I tell you and we handle it appropriately. Your matters and your participation stay confidential.
Quickly, because I keep the roster small for exactly this reason. For most questions a phone call or email gets you an answer the same day, if not within minutes or hours. For anything urgent, reach out and tell me it is urgent. Responsiveness is the whole point of the program.
As clearly indicated at multiple places on this page (I will always be upfront with you), membership is $3K per year. About the same amount many professionals spend each year on auto insurance, cell phone service, or daily coffee habits—except this investment is designed to help you make better decisions, avoid costly mistakes, and accelerate your professional growth.
It is for new lawyers, associates, and attorneys early in their careers who want a senior trial lawyer in their corner and are ready to put the advice to work. It's also for a seasoned lawyer opening up a new division, practice area or moving sideways into a new firm. It is not for someone looking to outsource their thinking or skip doing the work. You still do the work and build the skill. I just help you build it years faster.
Anything across the life of a case: pre-lawsuit investigation, pleading strategy, discovery, law and motion, arbitration, mediation, settlement, trial, and appeal. Bring me the strategy questions (my favorite), the judgment calls, and the moments where you wish you had someone experienced to ask or brainstorm with.
You can keep figuring it out one hard case at a time. Or you can put four decades of settlement, litigation and trial experience in your corner today, for less than you bill in an hour, with the risk entirely on me.
Get started right now. If a spot is open, you're application will go through and payment processed. I will review your new membership and reach out personally to welcome you in.