Deposely

Senior partner preparing for cross-examination of a key witness in a multi-billion-dollar commercial dispute knows the witness's deposition testimony contradicts three earlier board meeting minutes — but finding those specific inconsistencies across 200,000 documents took a team of associates 6 weeks, and the partner suspects there are more contradictions buried in the record that nobody found

Litigation attorney takes a 4-hour deposition on Tuesday but the transcript won't arrive for 10-15 business days — by then the details are fuzzy, the next witness prep is rushed, and opposing counsel has already moved to exclude the testimony on a technicality the attorney can't remember clearly enough to rebut

Litigator has 200 pages of deposition transcripts and needs to extract the 15 key facts that matter for the motion — but reading and manually tagging each relevant passage takes an entire weekend, and there's no way to link those facts back to the specific transcript page when writing the brief