How to Use Casetext for Legal Practice

Want to know more about Casetext? Here is everything you need to know.

Casetext can handle an array of critical tasks in mass with precision and speed —giving you more time to better serve your clients and grow your business.

What is Casetext?

Overview

Casetext provides their product, CoCounsel, which is an AI legal assistant. CoCounsel does document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, and contract analysis in minutes, with high accuracy and legitimacy.

AI Utilization

CoCounsel is powered by GPT-4. CoCounsel will input specialized prompts into GPT-4, through a complicated process and techniques, to produce a customized output that is ensured to be credible and serviceable.

Cloud Database

Casetext implements the EDGAR Database. It includes functions like Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and retrieval and performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Additional Features of Casetext

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

When GPT-4 is asked a question, it answers by collecting information from its vast online database and using deep learning from what people used to train it. However, while GPT-4 can easily memorize much more information than a human can, it still makes errors and generates fake information, known as hallucinations. By connecting GPT-4 to a reliable legal regulation source, its output can be adjusted to real-world knowledge rather than relying only on its own memory.

Self-reflection

Self-reflection is a technique akin to chain-of-thought prompting, which can be used instead of or alongside it. With self-reflection, GPT-4 is prompted to assess its own outputs and make any required corrections, serving as a means to enhance accuracy.

Prompt chaining, on the other hand, is a process where the output of one query becomes part of the input for another. Like chain-of-thought prompting, this approach involves breaking down intricate tasks into smaller steps, enabling the utilization of GPT-4 for the processing of diverse documents and handling more complex information on a larger scale.

How to use Casetext

Distill Discovery for Key Insights

Before a deposition, review relevant documents and depones details to understand your case. This may involve examining pleadings, records, prior depositions, and more. Legal AI, like CoCounsel, can help summarize complex documents efficiently, aiding your case understanding.

Create a Quality Deposition Outline Quickly

After identifying case issues, decide your goals for each issue and use CoCounsel's "Prepare for a Deposition" feature to generate a comprehensive outline with topics and questions. Customize it easily.

Anticipate Weaknesses in Your Case

Consider potential questions from opposing counsel to be well-prepared. CoCounsel's "Review Documents" can objectively pinpoint case weaknesses and help you strategize accordingly.

Know Local Deposition Rules

Understand deposition rules, especially objections. CoCounsel's "Legal Research Memo" provides rules and explanations, and you can download them for reference. This knowledge ensures effective objection handling during the deposition.

Pricing

The "Basic Research" version starts at $220/month, and it reduces to $110/month for the annual plan.

The "CoCounsel All Access" version starts at $500/month, and it reduces to $400/month for the annual plan.

For more advanced uses, it is an option to talk to the sales team for a customized plan.