Storybuilder is Everlaw’s narrative building toolkit.
The key documents you find during review are crucial to support your argument, but building a case requires more than just documents. Storybuilder includes tools to prepare for depositions, identify key testimony from depositions, and to combine your evidence with your team's own analysis to build your case timeline, all organized within your project Story.
Storybuilder helps your team build your arguments and stay on the same page throughout the lifecycle of your case.
A Story comprises six parts:
- Dashboard: Keep track of your Story activity
- People: Identify important people and build profiles outlining their history and relationships
- Fact timelines: Create timelines based on the facts and events of the case. Each fact can be supported with evidence uncovered during document review and depositions.
- Evidence: Sort and organize key documents and testimony by the people and/or issues they relate to
- Depositions: Prepare for depositions and analyze the transcripts of completed depositions
- Drafts: A flexible, collaborative word processing tool that links directly to your key evidence and Fact.
If enabled, generative AI tools are integrated throughout Storybuilder:
- Deep Dive for transcripts: Ask questions to get insights from all your uploaded transcripts at once. Deep Dive for transcripts leverages generative AI to respond with citation-backed answers that link you directly to relevant transcript content.
- Writing Assistant: When you want a jumpstart on evidence or deposition analysis, Writing Assistant can support you with a first draft or initial outline based on the evidence that you select, or help you analyze a transcript.
If you're an Admin who wants to set up Storybuilder for your team, you should also check out these two articles:
Introduction to Storybuilder Video
Access Storybuilder
Required permissions: To access Storybuilder, you must have the Story shared with you with View, Edit, or Full Access, or be in a user group with Admin permission for Storybuilder.
To get to Storybuilder, select the Storybuilder button on the top navigation bar.
From the homepage, you can select the Project Story card in the Storybuilder column.
Dashboard
When you first get to Storybuilder, you open it to the Dashboard, which is a snapshot of what's going on in your Story. There are several panels that show you what's going on.
- Evidence in Story: Shows you how many documents, highlights, and testimony are in your Story
- Suggested additions: Recommends documents that might be good additions as Story evidence
- Facts/Evidence with dates: Distributions of the Facts or evidence in your Story over time
- Upcoming events: Any scheduled depositions
- Tasks: Tasks that have been assigned within a Deposition or Draft
- Recently accessed: Fact timelines, Drafts, or Depositions that you have recently accessed
For more information about the Dashboard, see our Story Dashboard article.
People
On the People page, you can create profiles of the key individuals in your case. The people you add here can be used as labels throughout Storybuilder, so you can keep track of their relationship to Facts, evidence, and deposition testimony across your case.
Read more about People in our Storybuilder People Profiles article.
Fact timelines
A Fact timeline is a custom timeline of your case, based on important events, details, and claims that you add as Facts. Early in a case, you might create Facts to outline some claims based on client interviews or early document review. As you move through the case, you can start supporting each Fact with evidence and labels that help you build a more complete narrative.
Read more about Fact timelines in our Fact Timelines article.
Evidence
All the evidence you add to Storybuilder is displayed on your Evidence page. It's a unified view of the documents, document highlights, and excerpted testimony from completed depositions that you have added to the Story. Any of the evidence on this page can be used to support Facts in a Fact timeline or added as evidence in a Deposition or Draft. On the Evidence page, you can sort and filter your evidence to narrow it down to just the subset you care about.
Read more about Evidence in our Evidence page article.
Depositions
Depositions in Everlaw are created to prepare for, conduct, and summarize a deposition or other interview process, as well as view and annotate the resulting transcript. In a Deposition, you can outline questions and include references to evidence to be introduced as exhibits or to testimony from prior depositions. This functionality, along with our generative AI Writing assistant and real-time collaboration capabilities, allows you and your team to efficiently prepare for the day of your deposition and complete your analysis afterward.
Read more about Depositions in our Introduction to Depositions article.
Read more about Writing Assistant in our Storybuilder and Writing Assistant article.
Read more about asking questions to get insights from all your deposition transcripts in our Deep Dive for Transcripts article.
Drafts
Storybuilder Drafts give your team a collaborative space to create written work product that references evidence and Facts from your case, and use Writing Assistant to jumpstart your drafting process. Drafts can be used to outline case strategy, draft motions or briefs, create a template for depositions, or for any document you would like your team to work on together.
Read more about Drafts in our Storybuilder Drafts article.