Wexler

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

Mid-size law firm has used the same desktop billing software for 15 years and it works, but remote attorneys can't access it from home, new hires expect a browser-based interface, and the managing partner is worried about the vendor sunsetting the product — the switching cost feels enormous because 15 years of billing history and custom templates live in that local database

When my firm's 20-year-old desktop billing system finally can't run on the newest Windows, I need to migrate decades of billing history to a cloud tool without losing client records, archived invoices, or trust account balances — and the attorneys refuse to learn anything that looks different

Class action settlement awarded $42M to 500,000 claimants but distributing the money takes 6 months of paper checks, returned mail, and manual identity verification — by the time half the checks arrive, a third have been lost, returned, or never cashed, and the remaining funds sit in escrow while the court demands status reports on why distribution isn't complete

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

General counsel needs outside counsel for a niche matter — employment dispute in Singapore, regulatory filing in Brazil, or patent prosecution in Germany — but their existing panel doesn't cover it, and cold-calling firms from a directory is a crapshoot

Government records officer gets a FOIA request for social media posts from 18 months ago — the agency's Twitter account has 12,000 posts, nobody saved the deleted ones, and the agency has 10 business days to respond before the requester escalates. Manual scrolling through social media history is not a compliance strategy

Company gets a letter saying beneficial ownership reports are due under the Corporate Transparency Act — they have 40 LLCs across 8 states, each with different beneficial owners, and nobody has a centralized record of who owns what percentage or their current addresses, so the compliance officer is scrambling to collect SSNs and passport copies from dozens of individuals before the deadline

Fund formation partner closes a $200M fund with 40 LPs — each investor gets a 50-page subscription agreement that needs to be customized based on their entity type, tax status, and regulatory jurisdiction, and the paralegal spends 3 weeks chasing investors for correct signatures, missing pages, and illegible responses before the fund can actually close

Fund manager's compliance team needs to verify KYC/AML for every LP in a new fund — 40 investors across 12 jurisdictions, each with different beneficial ownership structures, and the 31 CFR deadline is approaching while half the investors haven't submitted their compliance documentation

Senior associate preparing for a 3-week commercial fraud trial has 200,000 documents in the review platform but no way to automatically identify where Witness A's account of a meeting contradicts the email chain from that same day — the team manually cross-references depositions against contemporaneous documents, and a critical inconsistency in the opposing party's timeline only surfaces during cross-examination when it's too late to build the impeachment narrative

Disputes partner receives a new complex commercial case with 200,000+ documents and needs to understand the factual landscape within a week to advise the client on strategy and costs — but the team can't even get through initial review in that timeframe, so the first case assessment is based on the client's narrative rather than the evidence

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