Want to know five ways generative AI is reinventing modern litigation workflows? Justin Smith of Everlaw discusses them here!

In his post titled (wait for it!) Five Ways Generative AI Is Reinventing Modern Litigation Workflows (available here), Justin identifies five ways generative AI is reinventing modern litigation workflows (duh!). Here’s one of them:

Initial Fact-Finding: From Keyword Guessing to Direct Interrogation

Historically, the early phase of discovery involved attorneys spending days crafting complex search strings, a process that essentially forced a high-stakes guessing game where one missed term or piece of internal jargon could mean missing the evidence entirely.

With Everlaw’s generative AI tool Deep Dive, however, you can now use natural language questions to interrogate an entire database. The AI understands the context of the inquiry, not just the literal characters in a search string.

For example, in a lawsuit against a chemical manufacturer, you might ask whether any internal discussions mention bypasses of the filtration system during the heavy rain events of 2022.

Based on that single question, Deep Dive can identify a chain of technical Slack messages where a supervisor tells a technician to open the secondary gate to prevent overflow. It’ll then synthesize an answer that connects this action to the specific dates of the rain, providing direct links to the logs.

Instead of spending weeks refining keywords and missing hidden jargon, the lead attorney now has a clear narrative of events within the first hour of opening the database. That frees up time to immediately begin building their case narrative, getting a head start on the other side.

So, what are four other ways generative AI is reinventing modern litigation workflows? Find out here, it’s only one click! High-five! 😉

So, what do you think? Are you utilizing agentic AI in discovery? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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