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Richard L.
Sanders.
Lawyer · builder · soloist.
Utah Bar #15728, admitted 2015. Practitioner experienced in civil, criminal defense advocacy, appellate law, and federal U.S. 10th Circuit. Founder of Sanders Legal Solutions; designer and engineer of the BenchSlap stack — the closed-corpus, hash-pinned, hallucination-defeated legal verification system underlying BenchSlap PRO and Bench Slap Basic.
Outside the courtroom: violin under the alias The Swansong Soloist — six pieces for solo violin released 2026 as Quod Ego Solus Memini, on Spotify and major platforms via DistroKid. Publishing imprint Black Ocean Books.
No greater advocate.
No more dangerously prepared enemy.
At a glance
- Bar admission
- Utah State Bar #15728 · admitted 2015
- Federal practice
- U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Practice areas
- Civil litigation · criminal defense advocacy · appellate practice
- Office
- Salt Lake City, Utah · by appointment
- Direct contact
- richard@option.black · 801-347-4349
- Practice site
- option.black/sanders
Technology — BenchSlap stack
- BenchSlap PRO
- benchslap.pro — verified-citation legal toolkit for attorneys
- Bench Slap Basic
- benchslap.com — public legal-research engine
- 4All.Help
- 4all.help — access-to-justice deployment for incarcerated and pro-se litigants
- AEGIS
- option.black/option-black/aegis — closed-corpus authority pinning · 3M+ authorities
- Gravity Kernel
- option.black/option-black/gravity — deterministic verdict gate · zero probabilistic overrides
- Vox Omnium
- option.black/option-black/vox — translation engine · above-six-sigma verified-correct rate
- Conclave
- option.black/conclave-landing.html — multi-flagship deliberation framework
- Patents
- Multiple applications in progress; mechanism withheld
Music — The Swansong Soloist
- Album
- Quod Ego Solus Memini (2026) — six pieces for solo violin
- Listen
- Spotify · canonical artist page option.black/option-black/swansong
- Featured single
- The Girl I Knew — video, DistroKid
- Translation
- Quod Ego Solus Memini — "what I alone remember"
- Imprint
- Black Ocean Books (publishing)
Pull quotes
"No greater advocate. No more dangerously prepared enemy."
— Sanders Legal Solutions
"We did not build a faster horse. We built the gate the horse goes through — and we own it."
— Vox Omnium
"Logic decides. Law follows. The kernel does not vote."
— Gravity Kernel
"Verified, or it does not ship. The shield is not a metaphor."
— AEGIS
Assets
Direct downloads. Use without further permission for accurate journalism.
