A Dozen Great Litigation Podcasts

What follows is a list of 12 well-made podcasts that address legal issues of broad interest to litigators in the United States. It’s not a collection of “best podcasts” or an endorsement of any individual podcast or its producer. Instead, think of this list as that small sliver of the podcasting universe deserving of the…

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How Jury Instructions Can Support Deposition Preparation

Experienced litigators often describe successful trial preparation as a process that begins with identifying desired outcome, followed by “reverse engineering” the constituent parts of the desired result. In most cases, the constituent parts of civil litigation leading to a successful jury trial are the pleadings, pretrial discovery and deposition practice, witness testimony at trial, trial…

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Generative AI Shines With Deposition Transcript Summaries

Notwithstanding frequent “hallucinations” and the consequent embarrassment of getting caught relying on court rulings that do not exist, generative artificial intelligence is nevertheless fast becoming a familiar component in the workflows of busy litigators. The reason is that, for many routine litigation chores, generative artificial intelligence technologies are really, really good. One area where AI…

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Technology-Assisted Review Was Litigation’s First Encounter With AI

While the use of artificial intelligence for drafting legal pleadings is a relatively new phenomenon, the deployment of artificial intelligence in pretrial discovery of electronically stored information is not. In fact, the deployment of AI-powered technology-assisted review (TAR) tools to sift through electronically stored information is arguably the legal profession’s first use of artificial intelligence…

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