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Notes on running a document-heavy case file.
How to find contradictions in witness statements
Two witnesses describing the same meeting differently is normal and rarely worth much. A witness describing a meeting one way while an email sent that afternoon describes it another way is a different thing, and it is the thing worth the search time.
2026-09-08
Check these 5 things before AI text enters a filing
Language models produce fluent, confident, well-structured text that is sometimes about a world that does not exist. In most work that is an annoyance. In a filing it is a professional problem, and it has already ended badly for lawyers in several jurisdictions.
2026-09-04
Why your served bundle is invisible to search
You search the file for a word you are certain appears in it, and get nothing back. The document is there. The word is on the page. What is missing is any text for the search to match, because the page is a photograph of a page.
2026-08-28
How to build a case chronology from 900 emails
A commercial dispute is usually an argument about what was agreed and when. The answer sits in correspondence written years ago by people who have since left both companies, and the side that can lay out the sequence cleanly is the side that looks credible.
2026-08-21