New Summarization Features in CaseMap+ AI Produces Transcript and Document Summaries in Minutes

By Grant M. Snyder, Esq. and CaseMap+ AI Product Manager 

Litigators know all too well that time is both a precious commodity and their number-one value to clients. This often places their teams under mounting pressure to efficiently distill critical case documents while managing client expectations regarding billable hours. 

Enter CaseMap+ AI, an enhanced version of our award-winning fact management and case analysis solution that helps law firms organize case documents and craft case strategy to present a compelling case story. The breakthrough power of this new offering lies in its ability to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to summarize transcripts and case documents, offering substantial time and cost savings while improving the quality of case preparation. 

The Document Burden 

Litigation teams routinely handle cases involving thousands — or even millions — of documents. The discovery process alone can produce overwhelming volumes of information, such as deposition transcripts, interrogatory responses, expert reports, emails, contracts and other critical case materials. 

Of course, in the past these professionals had no choice but to tackle this document burden through manual review, often requiring junior associates to spend countless billable hours identifying relevant information. More recently, litigation teams have taken advantage of software tools to help them manage their matters and documents, with 70% of them using case management systems for litigation, according to a recent survey. 

Still, the document burden has left litigators open to a few recurring problems: 

• High costs must be passed on to clients, who increasingly scrutinize legal bills; 

• Inefficient allocation of legal talent and expertise as high-skilled litigators must wade through pages of documents; 

• Potential for human error or overlooked critical information; and 

• Delays in case preparation timelines. 

The emergence of AI technology is now making it possible to reduce this document burden, transforming these traditional approaches to litigation management. 

AI-Powered Transcript and Document Summarization 

CaseMap+ AI enhances the speed of mapping case components to achieve the core use cases of the CaseMap+ software application. There are two standout features that make this possible. 

Transcript Summarization 

Depositions often represent critical evidence in litigation, but reviewing lengthy transcripts consumes valuable time. CaseMap+ AI transforms the summarization and legal analysis workflow of deposition transcripts, generating the transcript summary and an interactive, editable walkthrough of topics that easily converts to the “Facts” section of the software. 

The AI-powered system automatically generates concise summaries highlighting key testimony, which is editable by the user to add or remove information. It also produces topical summaries, identifying page and line numbers within the summarized deposition so litigators can quickly review the specific testimony they would like to further examine. Topical summary reports can be easily exported to Excel, making review and sharing with colleagues fast and simple. 

The time and cost savings can be substantial: A 300-page deposition transcript that might typically require 3-5 days of manual review can be effectively summarized in as few as five minutes, with the most salient points highlighted for attorney consideration. Watch this brief informational video to learn more about transcript summarization with AI in CaseMap+. 

Document Summarization 

Beyond transcripts, CaseMap+ AI processes various types of case documents to identify document relationships, extract key content, and organize information such as issues, timelines or legal relevance. This might include contracts and agreements, expert reports and opinions, correspondence between parties, medical records and other technical documentation. 

The AI-powered engine then provides summaries of documents that automatically populate the “Document Summary” field with a brief synopsis of what litigators should expect to find within the document. This helps cut down navigation time and eliminates manual summarization work. 

With AI-powered document summarization, litigation teams can deploy their talent more strategically so that partners can quickly access summarized information, associates can focus on analysis — rather than document review — and other professionals can concentrate on higher-value tasks. Meanwhile, clients benefit from reduced costs of manual document review, more predictable case budgets and faster turnaround on legal work. 

Research indicates that litigation teams are receptive to the idea of leveraging AI-powered technology applications into the way they practice law. Nearly four in 10 (38%) legal professionals told Law360 Pulse that they are either currently using or have plans to use AI tools in their trial preparation work. 

Experience CaseMap+ AI 

CaseMap was the software product that pioneered the category of case analysis software more than 25 years ago. With the launch of CaseMap+ AI, litigation teams will experience the first wave of AI features — headlined by extraordinary transcript summarization and document summarization, delivering brief synopses to significantly streamline document and transcript review. 

CaseMap+ AI is the premier fact management and case analysis solution that helps law firms organize case documents and craft case strategy, enabling litigators to present a compelling case story. The software enables seamless integration of case-related materials, discussions and insights in a centralized platform for efficient collaboration and organization, making it a valuable business operations solution. 

For more information, request a free trial of the new CaseMap+ AI solution for litigation teams.