Trust v. Trustees:
Untangling 10 Years of Bank Statements
in a Single Afternoon

Client


Kluger Kaplan (Florida Trial Attorneys for Complex Cases)

Contact


Daniel Herrera, Litigation Associate

Matter

Complex trust litigation (breach of fiduciary duty)

Team

1 partner • 1 associate • 1 senior paralegal

Data

10–12 bank accounts • 2014–2023 • ~500 PDFs & scans

Challenge

500+ monthly statements with deadline pressure

Solution

CaseGuild’s OCR + Entity Search + Timeline Workflow

Result

40–50 hrs reduced to <1 hr; 15× ROI; 100% completeness

Kluger Kaplan faced a familiar problem in trust litigation:

• 500+ monthly statements across four banks
• Faint, inverted, or inconsistent scans
• Manual spreadsheet already exceeded $1,000 in professional time — only 20% complete
• Reconciliations needed before the trust-accounting objection window closed

Upload (~2 minutes)

Drag and drop statements into a new workspace.

AI Extraction (<30 minutes)

Vision-OCR automatically lifted payee, amount, and check number.

Entity Search (Instant)

Queried “show all checks to [Company name]” or “[First Last].”

Excel Export (~30 seconds)

Generated one-click line-item sheet with links.

Global Timeline (Instant)

Auto-clustered payees across accounts to find missing invoices.

Checks Located (Key Payee)

• Manual -- 0/200
• With CaseGuild: 100% on first pass — reduced from 2 weeks to 30 minutes.

Professional Hours

• Manual: 40–50 hours manually
• With CaseGuild: Under 1 hour — saving over $15k in professional time.

Software Cost

• Equating to a 15× ROI.

Defense‑proof completeness — zero missed checks.

Client transparency — read‑only portal for self‑serve queries.

Pause‑and‑preserve pricing — data encrypted; pay only when active.

Ingest full 500‑document production (loan agreements & invoices).

Reconcile loan tables to clear checks; expose related‑party transfers.

Auto‑generate deposition exhibits from Global Timeline.