Practice Area Guides

Litigation Practices

From initial document review through motion practice, August helps litigators analyze complaints, discovery, transcripts, and correspondence—so your team finds the issues that move cases forward instead of getting buried in first-pass review.

Build the Strongest Case in the Room

Litigation work demands precision at speed. August reviews your documents, applies your firm's standards, and drafts your redlines, so your team can focus on the work that moves the case forward.

Results you can expect: 95% faster due diligence, 90% faster document review, 60% more efficient deal execution.

Case Assessment and Early Strategy

Use Assistant to orient quickly on new matters and build your early case strategy.

  1. Upload key pleadings, core agreements, and critical correspondence.

  2. Ask August to generate a concise case overview for internal use, flagging strengths, weaknesses, and open factual questions.

  3. Use Matter Intelligence to build a timeline of key events with citations to pleadings and emails.

Example prompt

Based on the attached complaint and answer, provide: (1) a concise case overview identifying key claims and defenses, (2) a bullet-point list of case strengths and weaknesses, (3) open factual questions that need investigation, and (4) a preliminary case strategy outline.

Discovery and Evidence Organization

Discovery productions often contain hundreds or thousands of documents. Use August to extract structure and identify patterns.

Tabular Review for Structured Extraction

Use Tabular Review for structured extraction across document productions:

  • Payment records, logs, and correspondence

  • Tables of key events, custodians, and disputed facts tied to document IDs and Bates ranges

Matter Intelligence for Pattern Detection

Leverage Matter Intelligence to identify inconsistent statements or gaps in the record.

Example prompt

Using Tabular Review, analyze all email productions in this matter. Extract: (1) sender, (2) recipient, (3) date, (4) key topics discussed, (5) attachments mentioned. Flag any emails discussing [specific issue] for priority review.

Motion Practice and Briefing Support

Use August to support motion drafting and briefing workflows.

  1. Provide August with draft motions and the key authorities, asking for issue-focused outlines and alternative argument formulations.

  2. Use August to suggest structures for statements of fact that align with the available evidence, always cross-checking against the underlying documents.

  3. Generate draft outlines for deposition or cross-examination keyed to the documentary record.

Example prompt

Based on the attached motion draft and supporting authorities, provide: (1) an issue-focused outline organizing the key arguments, (2) alternative formulations for the weakest arguments, (3) a statement of fact structure aligned with the evidence in the record, and (4) suggested deposition questions based on the documentary record.

Playbooks: Catch Every Deviation Without Reading Every Page

Discovery productions and contract disputes often involve repetitive review. Playbooks codify your preferred language, fallbacks, and rejection criteria, then run automatically across your document set.

  1. Define your standards for common contract types—NDAs, MSAs, settlement agreements, protective orders.

  2. Run your playbook across discovery productions or incoming contracts.

  3. Review structured results—see which documents match, which need fallback language, and which require escalation.

Word Add-In: Draft and Redline Without Context Switching

The Word Add-In brings analysis and editing into the drafting environment—flagging issues, tightening language, and generating tracked changes without forcing you to toggle between tools.

  • Flag issues in context within your brief or motion

  • Draft with tracked changes, accepting, rejecting, or modifying suggestions directly

  • Stay focused on the document without leaving Word

Integrations That Fit Your Practice

  • Microsoft Word: live drafting, issue flagging, and redlining without leaving the document

  • Outlook: summarize email threads, extract action items, and track correspondence across matters

  • SEC EDGAR: research opposing parties and related filings directly inside your workflow

Enterprise-Grade Security for Sensitive Matters

  • Single-tenant deployment: your environment stays isolated

  • AES-256 encryption: data protected at rest and in transit

  • Ethical walls: matter-level access control across your team

  • No training on your documents: your case files are never used to train AI models

August maintains ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II certification.

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