Matey

eDiscovery costs are insane — traditional vendors charge per-GB processing fees that can hit $100K+ for a single matter, making it economically impossible for small-to-mid firms to run proper discovery

eDiscovery tools require a dedicated specialist to operate — Relativity needs an admin, but most small/mid litigation teams don't have one and need something a paralegal can use after a 30-minute demo

Litigation team building a case chronology across 50,000 documents, 30 depositions, and hundreds of exhibits does it in Excel or Word — no single platform connects facts, people, events, and evidence into a searchable timeline, so critical connections between a witness statement and a document are missed

Senior partner spends 3 hours line-editing a junior associate's 30-page brief — fixing passive voice, nominalizations, throat-clearing introductions, and inconsistent tone — because the firm has no systematic way to enforce writing standards before work reaches partner review, and every associate makes the same mistakes

Solo or small firm attorney pays $25-50/month per user for DocuSign or Adobe Sign just to get engagement letters and retainer agreements signed — the firm sends maybe 15 documents a month and doesn't need enterprise features, but there's no middle ground between free tools with no audit trail and expensive enterprise platforms

Patent attorney drafting a 30-page specification has to manually verify that every reference label ('processor 235', 'memory 240', 'display 245') is used consistently across the specification, claims, and drawings — one mislabelled reference or antecedent basis error can trigger a USPTO objection that costs the client $2,000+ in additional prosecution fees and delays the application by months

Litigation partner needs an expert witness in underwater welding metallurgy for a maritime injury case — the paralegal spends two weeks cold-calling university departments and professional associations, the expert they find has never testified before, and the opposing counsel's Daubert challenge succeeds because nobody checked the expert's litigation history

When my litigation team receives 100,000 documents in discovery and the partner wants an early case assessment by Friday, I need to understand the key facts, players, and timeline before we've even started formal review — but right now the only option is throwing associate hours at it and hoping we surface the right documents

Executor inherits a loved one's estate and faces 600+ hours of paperwork — locating bank accounts, notifying agencies, filing probate, transferring titles — with zero training and while grieving

I need a solicitor for my house purchase but every firm I call quotes £3,000-5,000 and can't tell me the total cost upfront — I end up choosing blindly, getting surprise bills, and the process drags on for months with no visibility into what's actually happening

Criminal defense attorney gets 34,000 pages of discovery from the prosecution — body cam footage, phone records, texts, witness statements, police reports — and has 60 days to find the needle in the haystack that proves their client's innocence. Manual review would take weeks they don't have, and the critical exculpatory detail is buried on page 28,347

Defense team is preparing for trial in 3 weeks and needs to build a coherent timeline from fragmented evidence — witness statements contradict each other, body cam timestamps don't align, and critical connections between defendants are buried across thousands of documents

Evidence in criminal cases comes in formats that eDiscovery tools weren't built for — body cam video, jail phone calls, surveillance footage, text message exports — and the attorney needs to search and cross-reference across all of it like they would with documents

Public defender with 150 active cases doesn't have time to thoroughly review discovery in each one — the office is so under-resourced that attorneys get 15 minutes to review a case file before arraignment, and evidence that could support a dismissal or better plea deal sits unread because there simply aren't enough hours