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The man behind the work

Richard L.
Sanders.

Lawyer · builder · soloist.

Utah Bar #15728, admitted 2015. Experienced in civil, criminal defense advocacy, appellate law, and federal U.S. 10th Circuit. Practice by appointment.

Designed and built the BenchSlap stack — verified-citation legal toolkit, closed-corpus authority pinning (AEGIS), deterministic verdict gating (Gravity Kernel), translation engine (Vox Omnium), multi-flagship deliberation framework (Conclave). One filed architecture stands behind all of it — see below.

Outside the courtroom: violin under the alias The Swansong Soloist, six pieces released 2026 as Quod Ego Solus Memini. Publishing imprint Black Ocean Books.

No greater advocate.
No more dangerously prepared enemy.

Direct contact via the secure-message form. Inbound only — by referral, by reputation, by appointment.

Bar admission

Utah · #15728 · 2015

Federal

U.S. 10th Circuit

Practice areas

Civil · criminal defense · appellate

Letters patent Patent‑pending — a single filed architecture spanning 16 embodiments across 67 claims. U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/082,324 Methods withheld as trade secret. The architecture is licensed; the mechanism is not disclosed.
For platforms License The engine, the kernel, or the shield — under terms. For builders Partner Build a verified-corpus product with us. For capital Invest By introduction.