Our Institutional Pledge to Trial Counsel
In high-stakes civil litigation, your duty under ABA Model Rule 1.6, Texas Disciplinary Rule 1.05, and HIPAA does not permit sending client confidences, medical records, or strategic work product to unknown offshore entities or experimental chatbot wrappers. Koce is built from the ground up to satisfy the rigorous security, jurisdictional, and ethical demands of practicing trial attorneys.
100% DOMESTIC ASSURANCE: ALL DATA PROCESSING, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, RECORD ANALYSIS, AND COURTROOM SERVICES ARE PERFORMED EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES BY U.S. PERSONNEL UNDER BINDING TEXAS LAW. ZERO WORK IS OUTSOURCED OVERSEAS.
100% Domestic U.S. & Texas Operations (Zero Offshore Labor)
1.1 No Offshore Labor or Overseas Subcontractors. Unlike many software companies that route document indexing, data entry, and file review to offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities in India, the Philippines, or elsewhere, Koce maintains 100% domestic United States operations. Every line of code, every medical record audit, every deposition contradiction map, and every courtroom demonstrative is developed, managed, and executed by our domestic team in San Antonio and Austin, Texas.
1.2 Physical Courtroom Presence. We are not a remote, faceless tech startup. Our leadership and trial presentation specialists regularly sit in courtroom hot seats across Texas—from Harris County and Dallas County to Bexar, Travis, Tarrant, and regional district courts. We understand local courtroom culture, judicial preferences, and local rules because we operate inside them daily.
Texas Headquarters
San Antonio & Austin engineering and operations offices under Texas jurisdiction.
Zero Offshore Transfer
No client records, protected health information, or testimony ever leave the United States.
Direct Founder Contact
Direct phone and email access to founders Davis Jones and Blake Boyd.
25-Year Family of Companies Heritage (Since 1999)
2.1 Continuous Trial Support History. Koce operates as part of an established family of Texas legal support entities anchored by SA Legal Solutions (San Antonio Legal Solutions), founded by Co-Founder & CEO Blake Boyd in 1999. For over twenty-five years, our team has provided court reporting, legal videography, trial presentation, and litigation support to prominent plaintiff and defense trial firms across Texas.
2.2 400+ Jury Trials Supported. Blake Boyd and our senior trial technologists have manned the hot seat in more than 400 civil jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, and high-stakes injunction hearings. We have supported trials resulting in landmark eight- and nine-figure plaintiff verdicts as well as complete defense dismissals. We know what persuades a jury, what irritates a judge, and why 100% factual accuracy is non-negotiable under trial pressure.
Judicial Branch Certification Commission (JBCC) & NCRA Governance
3.1 Texas JBCC State Court Reporting Regulation. Our court reporting operations and shorthand reporters are certified, licensed, and regulated under the Judicial Branch Certification Commission (JBCC) of the State of Texas. We adhere strictly to Texas Government Code Chapter 52, Uniform Format Manual standards, and Texas Rules of Civil Procedure governing deposition custody, oath administration, and verbatim record integrity.
3.2 Professional Association Memberships. We are proud, active members in good standing of the premier professional court reporting and litigation support associations:
- (a) National Court Reporters Association (NCRA): Dedicated to the highest standards of verbatim reporting, captioning, and litigation technology.
- (b) Texas Court Reporters Association (TCRA): The official professional association for licensed Texas Certified Shorthand Reporters (CSRs).
- (c) Allied Legal Support Associations: Actively adhering to state bar and litigation support guidelines governing nonlawyer legal support personnel under ABA Model Rule 5.3.
HIPAA-Compliant Database & Google Cloud / Firebase Security
Our database (Cloud Firestore) and storage repositories (Cloud Storage) operate on Google Cloud Platform enterprise infrastructure under a formal HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA). All medical records, billing specials, and protected health information (PHI) remain fully compliant with federal privacy standards.
4.1 Domestic U.S. Data Residency (`us-central1`). All databases, document repositories, and computational workflows run on Google Cloud Platform and Firebase multi-zone infrastructure restricted exclusively to the United States domestic region (us-central1). Data never traverses international borders or foreign server nodes.
4.2 Enterprise Cryptographic Standards. Data security is maintained through defense-in-depth:
- (a) Encryption at Rest: All stored documents, extracted text, and database documents are encrypted using industry-standard AES-256 with Google-managed encryption keys.
- (b) Encryption in Transit: All web connections, API communications, and data uploads enforce strict TLS 1.3 transport encryption.
- (c) Perimeter Defense & DDoS: Continuous web application firewalling and distributed denial-of-service mitigation via Google Cloud Armor.
- (d) Compliance Certifications: Built upon Google Cloud data centers holding active certifications for SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, and ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018.
Strict Matter Isolation & Contractual Zero-Model Training Guarantee
5.1 Ironclad Zero-Training Contractual Guarantee. As codified in Article 4 of our Master Terms of Service, Koce contractually warrants that Customer Case Content, deposition transcripts, medical files, and attorney prompts are NEVER used to train, retrain, fine-tune, or evaluate any public or private Artificial Intelligence or Large Language Model (LLM).
5.2 Ephemeral Enterprise Processing. AI inference workflows run on Google Cloud Vertex AI enterprise infrastructure under strict Zero-Data-Retention (ZDR) service agreements. Case text is processed transiently in volatile memory solely to compile the requested legal deliverable and is immediately discarded. Your work product is never logged or exposed to external AI vendors.
5.3 Complete Privilege Non-Waiver. Operating under ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Texas Ethics Opinion 705, transmitting discovery to Koce constitutes confidential technical assistance that preserves the attorney-client privilege, work-product doctrine under FRCP 26(b)(3) / TRCP 192.5, and client confidentiality under ABA Model Rule 1.6.
Rule 11 Attorney Supervision & 100% Evidentiary Provenance
6.1 Built for Attorney Verification. Unlike consumer chatbots that generate hallucinated case citations or fabricated quotes (*Mata v. Avianca*), Genius is an evidentiary compiler. Every factual claim, admission, and timeline entry is anchored strictly to original source exhibits with exact Bates stamp numbers and sworn transcript page/line citations.
6.2 One-Click Return Path. Every deliverable provides a complete return path: click any assertion in a 40-page brief or contradiction matrix to inspect the exact underlying sentence in the sworn deposition transcript or marked exhibit.
Direct Founder Ingress & Account Governance
7.1 Real People, Real Accountability. You never deal with an unmonitored ticket queue or an overseas chatbot. You have direct personal contact with our executive and technical leadership:
Davis Jones · Co-Founder & CTO
AI Systems Architect & Techstars Alumnus.
Direct Line: (210) 591-1791
Email: davis@kocelegal.com
Blake Boyd · Co-Founder & CEO
Master Trial Technologist & Founder of SA Legal Solutions.
400+ Jury Trials Supported Since 1999.
Email: bboyd@depogenius.com