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AI for Litigation Counsels

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The shift

How AI is changing the Litigation Counsel role

AI now handles the heavy lifting in document review, flagging relevant and privileged material across thousands of files faster than a manual first pass. It drafts first versions of motions, deposition outlines, and discovery responses, and it summarizes long depositions and expert reports in minutes. The result is more time for strategy, witness prep, and persuasive argument.

What AI can take off your plate

  • First-pass document review to sort for relevance and likely privilege
  • Summarizing long depositions, expert reports, and email threads
  • Building chronologies and witness fact charts from raw documents
  • Drafting routine discovery responses, correspondence, and motion first drafts
  • Checking citations and confirming whether cases are still good law

What stays distinctly human

  • Deciding case strategy and which arguments to actually run
  • Judging witness credibility and reading the room in depositions and at trial
  • Final calls on privilege, ethics, and what to produce or withhold
  • Negotiating with opposing counsel and managing the client relationship
  • Tailoring tone and persuasion for a specific judge or jury
Tools

Five AI tools for Litigation Counsels

Everlaw
A Litigation Counsel uses its predictive coding and clustering to prioritize relevant documents during discovery review and spot key custodians quickly.
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Casetext CoCounsel
Counsel uses it to research case law, draft and check arguments, and review deposition transcripts for admissions and inconsistencies.
Relativity aiR
Counsel uses its generative AI review to classify documents for responsiveness and privilege and to summarize document sets during large productions.
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Lexis+ AI
Counsel uses it to find on-point authority, check that cited cases are still good law, and pull together quick research memos with citations.
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ChatGPT
Counsel uses it to outline briefs, rephrase arguments for clarity, draft routine correspondence, and turn rough notes into a clean first draft.
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Prompts

Five prompts to try today

Paste these into Claude or ChatGPT and replace the bracketed parts with your own details.

1. Deposition outline
You are helping prepare for a deposition in a [type of case] matter. The witness is [witness role and relationship to the case]. Key disputed facts are: [list facts]. Draft a deposition outline organized by topic, with foundation questions before each substantive line, and flag documents I should have ready for each topic.
2. Summarize a transcript
Summarize this deposition transcript. Identify admissions helpful to my client, statements that contradict [other witness or document], any objections preserved, and topics where the witness was evasive. Cite the page and line for each point. Transcript: [paste].
3. Motion argument draft
Draft the argument section of a [motion type] under [jurisdiction] law. My position is [position]. The opposing argument is [their argument]. Use IRAC structure, leave bracketed placeholders for case citations, and note where I need to confirm the controlling standard.
4. Discovery response review
Review these requests for production and my draft responses. For each request, flag objections I should consider (overbreadth, privilege, proportionality), note where a response is incomplete, and suggest clearer objection language. Requests and responses: [paste].
5. Chronology builder
Build a chronology of events from these documents. List date, event, source document, and the people involved in a table, and flag gaps or conflicting dates. Documents: [paste or describe].
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Your PlaybookFirst drafts
Turn a blank page into a solid first draft

The move that gets you past the hardest part of any task — starting. Works for an email, a plan, a report, a tricky reply. Free, no login.

ChatGPT  FREE  a free AI assistant that drafts, rewrites, and thinks through problems with you

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Go to chatgpt.com (the free tier is fine) and describe what you need in plain words. Give it the goal, the audience, and any facts it should use:

I need to write [what]. It's for [who], and the goal is [what you want them to do or understand]. Here are the key points: [paste your rough notes]. Draft it in a clear, direct tone. Ask me anything that's missing first.
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It drafts. Now make it yours — push back in the same chat:

Make it shorter and less formal. Cut anything that sounds generic. Keep the part about [X].

You go from staring at nothing to editing a real draft in two minutes. Editing is always easier than starting.

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