With increasing pressure to meet ESG commitments, should the courts push for more sustainable litigation, by leveraging technology; and do we need rule reform to see a complete shift in mindset and practice?
In fact, AI is fast becoming widely used across various industries, with developments in machine learning showing promise in solving complex issues.
Although industry-wide adoption within law could be described as relatively slow compared with other industries, lawyers are finding practical uses for litigation AI in every stage of their matters’ lifecycles.
In this article, we explore three key ways in which AI has permeated litigation practice.
There is no denying the benefits of AI in litigation. From case prediction to instant access to information, AI can support trials and hearings in numerous ways, and can save legal professionals a significant amount of time and money.
In addition, AI tools can enhance collaboration, compliance, and the overall strategic approach to legal proceedings and litigation, allowing lawyers to work with increased speed and efficiency for every aspect of your case.
Lawyers are now unlocking key connections, events, patterns and insight into their dataset using generative AI technologies. This is a particularly powerful practical use case for AI in larger, more complex cases where the review and analysis of relevant documents are in the hundreds of thousands or millions.
Powered by GPT, TrialView’s intelligent search functionality allows users to access case knowledge with incredible speed, meaning lawyers can uncover inconsistencies in their opponent’s case and witness testimony, whilst saving time and cost.
Digital dictation has come along leaps and bounds over the last few years and has become an invaluable tool for key litigious activities, such as hearings or witness interviews.
TrialView’s Witness Preparation Tool includes fully integrated, hyperlinked video transcription. Ensuring compliance with PD 57AC, users can record a verbatim account of witness evidence, and generate a draft witness statement hyperlinked to key documents.
AI can be invaluable for carrying out tedious, labour-intensive tasks such as data entry, processing or analysis. This is especially true for bundling exercises.
TrialView’s intelligent workspace allows you to create complex bundles in full compliance with relevant rules. Whether you are working from Excel, PDF, Word or e-mail we enable fast PDF bundle creation with a hyperlinked index, OCR and bookmarking. AI tools enable date recognition, smart pagination, dynamic cross referencing and hyperlinking across all documents.
To conclude, these technologies are not only becoming inevitable due to being court-prescribed in some cases, but they are essential to legal practitioners in their ability to remain competitive as more clients rightly demand price and strategy transparency in relation to their matters.
At TrialView, our award-winning AI powered platform is a trusted litigation solution for law firms around the world. Our Open AI offering enables you to ask questions, build timelines, detect patterns, and make connections at speed.
This allows you to compare statements, depositions, and case documents, as well as uncover inconsistences in your opponent’s case and witness testimony. Plus, with eBundlng, case preparation, and hearing services, TrialView allows you to work with speed and efficiency so you can make your case preparation smarter through collaboration.
If you would like to learn more about how litigation AI can support your upcoming trial or hearing, reach out to info@trialview.com for an overview of our AI capabilities. Alternatively, why not book a tailored demo to see TrialView in action?
Managing duplicates in court bundles can be a time-consuming challenge to overcome in the run up to a hearing.
Duplicates can exist in a dataset for many reasons, such as collecting the same document from multiple sources, collecting multiple versions of the same document (near-duplicates) or non-inclusive emails.
In addition, navigating court guidelines can be challenging, with the Commercial Court Guide clearly stating that “no more than one copy of any one document should be included, unless there is good reason for doing otherwise”. This means that legal teams have a responsibility to ensure that unnecessary duplicative documents are removed from the court bundles.
Deduplication is a process by which exact duplicates are eliminated from the dataset, and this can usually be carried out by your chosen software provider, such as your eDiscovery platform, ebundling, or trial presentation software.
Most deduplication tools use the assigned hash value to compare against other documents. Each document will have its own assigned hash value, which is a unique identifier used to distinguish documents from one another. If two documents share the same hash value, they would be considered exact duplicates of one another, and thus all but one would be eliminated.
On the other hand, near-duplicates are often handled differently within the context of an investigation or trial. It may be relevant to the matter that, for example, multiple versions of a contract existed, or the fact that someone relevant to the proceedings forwarded a confidential email onwards. These near-duplicates may need to be included in the bundle along with their counterparts for points of comparison.
In the case of near-duplicates, using hash value deduplication may not be the best tool. Instead, your provider may be able to help you with near-duplicate analysis which can show similarities between documents from 95%+ similarity. This means that documents with slight changes to metadata or text would be highlighted for human review to decide on whether to include them in the trial bundle.
TrialView can support you with managing duplicates as quickly and seamlessly as possible, so you can save costs, simplify your workload, and work quickly and efficiently to prepare and present every aspect of your case.
Our workspace assigns a unique ID to each individual document to ensure it’s easy to identify where a document exists across different locations. This means that if a document exists in two separate bundles, both link to the same underlying document, which is imperative for bundle and version management.
TrialView is an intelligent, award-winning solution for ebundling, case preparation, and evidence presentation for legal professionals. Powered by Open AI technology, it is a trusted solution for law firms, courts, and tribunals all over the world, empowering you to create complex bundles easily, in full compliance with all the relevant rules.
Whether you are working from Excel, PDF, Word, or email, our dynamic 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 are struggling to manage duplicates in your court bundles, look no further. For more information about how TrialView can help you organise, prepare, and present your case so you eliminate duplicates and easily identify near-duplicates, contact us today. You may want to find out more or book a demo to see how TrialView can make your life easier.
With automation on the rise across the legal profession, it is easy to forget how impactful AI could be on the disputes sector.
Eimear McCann explores the true value of engaging AI tools in litigation, in a guest post for Legal Futures.
The need to trawl through paper files to find a specific document or file has been replaced by a simple search on a digital platform. The capacity to really interrogate the evidence, across an entire data set is incredibly powerful, allowing users to ask questions and retrieve specific answers within seconds.
The insights and patterns that can take hours to identify on paper can be automated and enhanced, with advanced bundling tools and automated transcription expediting hearing and witness preparation.
With the potential to completely revolutionise dispute resolution, a pragmatic approach is recommended, “[stakeholders] need to be wary of ensuring the material they are relying on and [the output] generated is constantly sense-checked and verified by human actors – that sense-check could also be augmented by other technology…but the critical thing is not to be misled, and ensure that factual inaccuracies are no greater than those in the manual world.”
The event, which is being hosted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), will focus on exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the arbitration industry and features Trialview founder, Stephen Dowling as one of the moderators.
This event promises to be an informative and engaging discussion about a topic that is becoming increasingly important in the legal world. As AI technology continues to advance, it is essential for those in the legal industry to stay informed about how it may impact their work. We’re proud to be sponsoring this event and look forward to the valuable insights that will be shared by the speakers and panellists.
