Suggestions for Using Everlaw AI to Draft in Storybuilder

Everlaw AI includes three tools that use generative AI to synthesize information across documents or deposition testimony and generate narrative insights about your matter:

• Deep Dive
• Writing Assistant
• Deep Dive for transcripts

Each tool is designed to help you get to the substance of your matter, and each integrates with Everlaw Drafts (and Depositions). 

Use this article for an overview of each tool and ideas on how to leverage them to further your understanding of a matter and keep track of that understanding in a Draft. Using Everlaw AI in your drafting can accelerate your grasp of a matter whether you're writing up an informal case narrative or preparing for a more formal motion.

Drafting in Storybuilder

Storybuilder Drafts are a flexible and collaborative word processing space built into Everlaw. Each Draft includes an Evidence panel, where you can add documents and deposition testimony to cite within the Draft. Essentially, anytime you have thoughts or evidence to organize, a Draft is the place to do it.

At the beginning of a case, we recommend setting up a Draft to house the insights and evidence you uncover during review and through Everlaw AI. 

As your case develops, you can create additional Drafts devoted to specific aspects and themes within it. Each Draft can be shared with and edited by a specific subset of users on your project, which gives you control over how information is collected and shared. If you need to, you can export Drafts to work on outside of Everlaw.

Learn more about Drafts in our Storybuilder Drafts article.

Overview of Everlaw AI tools

Deep Dive

Deep Dive is a question and answer tool that searches all your document contents to answer your natural language questions, backed up by quotes from your documents. Any organization with an Everlaw AI contract can enroll in Deep Dive.

Deep Dive is especially useful when you have a question about your case, but don't yet know the specific documents, individuals, or keywords that you would use for a more traditional search or analysis. A response to your Deep Dive question includes both a written answer and the set of documents from which it was generated. 

When you get a response to a question, you can copy it, along with the cited documents, into a Storybuilder Draft or Deposition. 

Learn more about how to use Deep Dive in our Use Deep Dive article.

Writing Assistant

Writing Assistant is a generative AI writing and evidence analysis tool built into Drafts and Depositions. It's available at no cost to any organization with Everlaw AI enabled. 

Writing Assistant is useful when you have already identified some key evidence, and want to jumpstart an analysis that cites specific documents. One advantage of using Writing Assistant is that you can specify the format of your output. For example, you can specify that the response is a table with defined columns conveying specific information. 

Learn more about Writing Assistant in our Storybuilder and Writing Assistant article.

Deep Dive for transcripts

Deep Dive for transcripts leverages similar technology to Deep Dive, but is optimized for deposition transcripts and housed with Storybuilder. It's available at no cost to any organization with Everlaw AI enabled. 

When you ask a question, Deep Dive for transcripts plucks out the quotes that relate to your question from across all your deposition transcripts to build its answer, which saves you the effort of combing through each one individually. In general, this can help you find themes and issues raised across depositions. 

When you use it for drafting, you can ask questions on specific topics you're trying to understand more deeply. You have a couple options for how to use the response:

• Use the copy to clipboard button to copy the response and paste it into the relevant section of  a Draft. 
• Use the Citations table to jump to a relevant quote within a transcript, then add that quote to use as evidence in your Draft.

Learn more in our Deep Dive for Transcripts article.

Leverage Everlaw AI responses in your drafting

Each of the tools described above can be leveraged at different points in your matter, depending on your current priorities for drafting and learning about the case. If you are looking for ways to get started, try these recommendations to make the most of using generative AI in your Drafts.

Start with Deep Dive

You can use Deep Dive very early in your case, when you don't yet have a fully developed understanding of the key issues or claims at play. Deep Dive responses at an early phase can help you outline a Draft that includes both the concepts and documents to explore further. The responses you copy into a Draft can form the basis for deeper analysis.

Use draft headers to organize the top themes and topics

Use headers in your Draft to create a navigable "table of contents" using the Navigation button. This is useful to organize the themes/topics/issues that you're tracking so you can quickly jump to the relevant section when you have a new insight to add.

Ask Deep Dive questions about your Storybuilder evidence

Deep Dive excels at identifying relevant content from across large document sets, whereas Writing Assistant works better on more focused document sets. Once your Evidence page is highly populated, use Deep Dive to query all your Evidence and get responses related to specific issues within the case.

To do so:

1. On the Evidence page, select the Review button to access a results table of all your Storybuilder documents. 
2. Go to Everlaw AI > Deep Dive. This opens Deep Dive to query just this document set.
3. Ask your question. Deep Dive will only use the documents from your Evidence page to generate its response.

When you copy the response into a Draft, Writing Assistant is available for a more focused analysis, formatted to your specifications. For example, a Deep Dive response might include documents relevant to claims of financial mismanagement. In a Draft, you can ask Writing Assistant to generate a table that lays out each claim with columns for the relevant date, issue, and individuals involved. 

Use Deep Dive for transcripts to round out your narrative

Testimony evidence is an invaluable complement to the documentary evidence in your case. You might use testimony to add heft to the issues you're already exploring, or find new issues to dive into.

When you already have a Draft that outlines the issues and claims at play, use Deep Dive for transcripts to:

• Generate summary of how your deponents testified on a given topic
• Find specific quotes that further refine your understanding of the topic
• Highlight discrepancies among the deponents. For example, if you have a section about "transaction due diligence," ask Deep Dive for transcripts "Are there any discrepancies between deponents regarding how the transaction came to be approved?” The response can point you to quotes that add additional context to your understanding.

If your depositions delve into novel issues that you haven't yet explored in document review, use Deep Dive for transcripts to summarize the issues and add new topics into your case narrative. This provides space for topics that are important to support with documentary evidence. 

Use generative AI to help you with deposition questions

When you're prepping for a deposition, you can use Deep Dive and Writing Assistant to help you identify potential exhibits and lines of questioning. Consider asking Deep Dive questions related to a specific deponent's role in the matter. Use the documents identified in the response(s) to create an outline or a list that suggests potential questions to ask about each.