Deposition Preparation
From Weeks to Days Before a Deposition:
Get Up to Speed on 50,000 Documents in Just 5 Days
At a Glance
Client
Bird Marella (Nationally Recognized Trial Lawyers)
Contact
Barr Benyamin, Associate Attorney
Matter
Complex Partnership Dispute Litigation
Team
1 partner • 1 associate • Expert Witnesses
Data
~50,000 documents; 5-day timeline for deposition preparation
Challenge
Compressed prep window with manual review bottlenecks
Solution
CaseGuild’s Targeted Fact Find + Witness Binders
Result
30 days of prep reduced to 5 days; targeted, confident strategy
The Challenge
Limited timeframe (5 days) to review ~50,000 documents for a critical deposition.
Manual review via Relativity was time-consuming and risked missing essential evidence.
Needed rapid, comprehensive understanding to form a deposition strategy.
The CaseGuild Solution
Upload (<10 minutes)
Upload and ingestion of 50,000-document corpus.
AI Analysis (~10 min / major inquiry)
Generated FactFind narratives and identified critical documents and connections.
Binder Organization (Instant)
New FactFinds tab showed every place a document appears in FactFinds; sped exhibit selection.
Strategic Prep (Instant)
Paste draft questions into FactFind to preview likely answers and ‘wiggle-out’ scenarios; import transcripts to check contradictions pre-trial.
Measurable Results
Preparation Time
Reduced from an estimated 30 days to just 5 days — an 83% faster turnaround.
Critical Evidence Found
Shifted from manual review (potentially incomplete) to comprehensive, AI-driven, and targeted — delivering 100% confidence in key documents.
Deposition Strategy
Improved from broad and time-consuming to focused, targeted questioning — providing strategic advantage and clarity.
Client Testimonials
Barr Benyamin shares his firsthand experience using CaseGuild during high-stakes trial preparation:
“We prepped using Relativity together with CaseGuild. Even when CaseGuild didn’t surface a specific doc, its answers and cites pointed me exactly where to look next, which led us to damaging exhibits. The new FactFinds tab in Binders is especially helpful, seeing every place a doc appears speeds exhibit prep.”
“Fact-Finding is incredible. I ran FactFinds over 7,000–10,000 documents and it finished in minutes, not hours. That let me keep working while the system did the heavy lifting.”
“In five days, I went from ‘we’re not prepared’ to having enough material to depose, and we identified very damaging documents that pinned the witness into a corner. That was incredible.”
“I’m in a trust-but-verify phase with any AI, but CaseGuild still made life significantly easier and narrowed my focus. For 10,000+ documents I’m 100% pushing to use CaseGuild. This is the future, and you’re ahead of the curve.”
Why This Matters
Efficiency: Transformed weeks of manual review into just days of targeted analysis.
Strategic Clarity: Enabled precise, effective deposition questioning.
Comprehensive Confidence: Ensured no critical documents were overlooked, significantly improving litigation posture.
Ongoing Success
Integrate CaseGuild for remaining discovery and final deposition preparations.
Use AI-driven inferencing to test and refine deposition questions, further strengthening litigation outcomes.
Promote adoption firm-wide through live demonstrations highlighting tangible results.
Handling 10,000+ documents?
See how CaseGuild turns days of review into minutes of insight. Contact sales@caseguild.com for a 15‑minute walkthrough.
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