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As the world becomes increasingly digital, it’s no surprise that the legal industry is following suit.

In particular, online dispute resolution (ODR) is gaining traction as an efficient and effective way to resolve disputes remotely. In a recent article titled “Litigation: A digital future,” Savannah Seymour explores the potential benefits of ODR and how it’s changing the legal landscape.

The article notes that ODR can provide a way to resolve disputes without the need for physical presence, saving time and money for all parties involved. Additionally, ODR can make the process more accessible to those who may have trouble traveling or attending in-person hearings. While there are still some challenges to be addressed, such as ensuring access to justice for all and improving digital infrastructure, the article suggests that ODR has the potential to be a game-changer for the legal industry. As more people become comfortable with technology and remote working becomes the norm, ODR is likely to become an increasingly important part of the dispute resolution process.

Read more on lawsociety.org

A recent article from by Eimear McCann highlights the emergence of the litigation workspace as a new category of legal technology.

The article notes that litigation workspaces are becoming increasingly popular as law firms seek to streamline their operations and improve efficiency. By consolidating all aspects of litigation into one platform, firms can save time and reduce the risk of errors. Additionally, litigation workspaces can provide a better client experience by allowing clients to access case information and communicate with their legal team in real-time.

As a complete digital disputes platform, TrialView is well-positioned to support the trend towards litigation workspaces. Trialview’s platform provides a range of tools to manage disputes, including bundle creation, evidence presentation, and video integration. By centralising all aspects of the dispute resolution process, TrialView can help law firms and their clients save time and improve communication.

Read more at law.com

Stephen Dowling, CEO of TrialView, recently appeared on The Fifth Court, a legal podcast in Ireland.

In episode seven of the podcast, Dowling joined hosts Gerard Groarke to discuss his experience as a commercial litigator and his transition to legal tech entrepreneurship. During the podcast, Dowling shared insights into the legal industry and highlighted the potential for technology to transform the way disputes are resolved. He emphasised the importance of embracing innovation to meet the changing needs of clients and to improve the efficiency of the legal system.

As the founder of TrialView, a complete digital disputes platform, Stephen is well-versed in the potential of technology to improve dispute resolution. The platform facilitates virtual and hybrid hearings and offers bundle creation, evidence presentation, and video integration in one streamlined platform.

Listen to the episode here.

With court guidelines now compelling legal teams to digitise their bundling processes, how can TrialView assist?

According to the latest court guidelines, legal teams must now digitise their bundling processes. However, it can be difficult to know what options there are on the market, how to get the most out of a specific piece of technology, or if they are even any good.

Various PDF editing tools have been a popular solution. However, these tools can prove challenging in situations where bundles are particularly voluminous or go through multiple iterations, requiring the bundle creator to add, replace or remove documents and track these changes in some way as the matter landscape evolves.

Further, this offline method then requires the bundle creator to recirculate a new bundle each time a new version is finalised. This can be an incredibly laborious task which is subject to a considerable level of human-error for even the most experienced bundle-makers.

So, what’s the solution? Read on to discover how court bundle software can help you work smarter, not harder.

4 ways TrialView can help you with eBundling

1. Reduces mistakes

TrialView’s eBundling feature deduplicates upon upload. This ensures that only one version of each document exists on the platform, reducing the possibility of duplicative work product being applied to multiple different versions.

Additionally, the workspace provides a dynamic environment to update and replace documents in your bundle. Our insert feature allows these changes to be made without affecting the global page numbering – which means one less thing for your team to track.

2. Collaborate in real-time

TrialView’s platform also promotes collaboration between team members, with all work product saved automatically with every change.

Further, different permission levels can be granted to various documents and bundles so access can be managed depending on whether you’re collaborating with counsel, witnesses or the client. Our solution provides a dynamic, single source of truth for all team members.

3. Ensure compliance

Many courts are updating their guidelines to compel legal teams to digitise their legal processes during proceedings.

Our workspace supports compliance with the most up-to-date rules, so your team doesn’t have to include additional, manual steps to ensure you’re adhering to current court guidelines. See our eBundling court guide here for more information on staying compliant.

4. A single environment

Finally, our court bundle software can serve your needs from bundle creation all the way through to the end of trial. There are huge benefits to using a single platform across multiple stages of a matter.

For example, saved time and costs associated with migration, risk of work product loss or lack of compatibility between chosen platforms, and potential training time for team members to get up to speed using a new system.

The ability to leverage different features of the same platform at different stages of your proceedings ensures you have cost certainty and valuable work product saved to use throughout the lifecycle of your case.

Discover the benefits of TrialView

TrialView offers one platform for great results, allowing you to work with speed and efficiency for every aspect of your case.

Whether you are working from Excel, PDF, Word, or email, our dynamic, award-winning solution enables fast and efficient bundle creation. Plus, advanced AI tools such as data recognition, smart pagination, de-duplication, and auto-indexing ensure your bundles can be organised very quickly.

So, if you want to focus on outcomes and worry less about hearing prep, book your tailored demo today or contact us to find out how our court bundling software can help.

The challenges

Working with witnesses, especially those with little judicial experience, can require a lot of billable time and organisation, with hours of preparation usually invested before first meeting with witnesses. Collecting the facts from your witness, and establishing a clear account which is both truthful and supportive of your client’s case is a vital, often expensive, and time-consuming endeavour.

The solution

The use of technology in witness preparation can prove prosperously advantageous. TrialView’s digital workspace accommodates seamless workflows for working with witnesses in preparation for your hearing. Some key benefits include:

 

• The ability for witnesses and legal teams alike to upload, collaborate and annotate documents to support statement-writing and preparation;
• Record a verbatim account of witness evidence, and make use of our AI speech to text tool by generating a draft witness statement hyperlinked to key documents;
• Our digital workspace provides a single environment of truth for all team members to work from, reducing the risks of duplicative efforts and improving efficiency across collaborative workflows;
• In adherence to PD 57AC, create a schedule of documents referred to in the witness statement, and hyperlink and/or cross-reference the statement for easy access to relevant documents;
• By using our AI-powered cognitive search functionality, analyse patterns and relationships between key actors, dates and events to improve your fact-finding and early witness preparation workflows.

 

By using our digital workspace from witness preparation to trial, legal teams take full benefit of streamlined workflows through multiple lifecycle stages. For more information on our offering, email us at info@trialview.com.

AI is undoubtedly on the rise. As the use of AI in litigation becomes increasingly the norm, there is no denying the numerous benefits it brings with it.

From enhanced case prediction to increased efficiency, more lawyers are turning to AI tools for their disputes.

We investigate the top five reasons for the adoption of AI in litigation below.

5 reasons for the adoption of AI in litigation

1. Automation

The ability to repeat high-volume labour using less time, money and resources is the goal of most legal teams. Automating processes, based on the repeatability of that task, is what makes AI so compelling to use in a legal framework.

Using AI gives lawyers the ability to recognise patterns in large datasets ahead of a document review exercise. Machine learning tools can find similar types of documents, or contextually similar documents and feed lawyers what the machine deems as more relevant to the investigation or proceedings.

To the same effect, the machine can de-prioritise documents deemed as less relevant. This leaves lawyers with more time to dedicate to highly skilled tasks, such as legal analysis and strategic planning.

2. Accurate prediction

AI has also opened the door to using statistical analysis to predict likelihoods of success in a given piece of litigation.

For example, data-driven knowledge can provide evidence-based probabilities for certain outcomes or costs, based on, for example, how frequently your assigned judge grants summary judgments, or how much on average is spent on litigation in matters of similar size and nature of the dispute.

These previously unknowns, opined with some guesswork by experienced lawyers, can provide more certainty with the use of AI.

3. Access to information

There has been no time in history where lawyers could access vital information quicker than they can today.

Whether it be understanding their client’s key documents, sourcing relevant pieces of legal research or contract clause analysis, AI-powered tools can get legal teams the information they need without the burden of high labour costs at a fraction of the time it would take for a human to conduct the same tasks.

4. Reduced stress and workload for lawyers

Modern lawyers no longer leave their work at the office. Their work is now able to be conducted wherever there’s a stable internet connection, and the work stress and pressure that comes with this ever-present “online” culture is a huge challenge to the legal industry.

However, certain automated workflows have been said to improve work satisfaction by supporting processes with repeatable, low-level tasks.

Even basic technological functionality on eDiscovery and trial software platforms such as deduplication and/or batch tagging are simple solutions to saving a lawyer’s time by looking at duplicate or near-duplicate documents.

This type of task would once upon a time require a lawyer’s review of each version separately, and was, understandably, subject to considerable levels of human error.

5. Inevitability of AI

The use of AI is quickly becoming inevitable. Clients are not only starting to opt to use certain smart tools to automate certain processes in their own businesses, but they’re seeking to understand how the legal team they’re engaging with are testing, understanding and using different technologies to better their services and ultimately reduce billable time.

Subsequently, the choice for lawyers to engage with the use of AI is dwindling rapidly, and arguably it’s only a matter of time before the use of AI will be necessary, or mandated, to comply with court guidelines.

Discover more about AI in litigation

AI tools such as TrialView can enhance collaboration, compliance, and the overall strategic approach to legal proceedings and litigation, allowing you to work with enhanced speed and efficiency for every aspect of your case.

If you’d like to learn more about the use of AI in litigation and find out how tools such as TrialView can help you work smarter, not harder, you can book a tailored demo to find out more about the benefits for yourself.

Alternatively, contact our team for further information.