Training group AltaClaro, in partnership with verbal intelligence pioneer Verbit, have launched DepoSim, ‘an AI-powered deposition simulator’. The move comes as law firms begin to grapple with how to train lawyers as AI inevitably takes on more of their routine work.
We have already seen companies such as BeSavvy come to market to create legal simulators, and in this case DepoSim provides lawyers with ‘live, hands-on practice conducting oral depositions in realistic, simulated litigation scenarios’.
The simulator offers unlimited opportunities to practice deposing witnesses with ‘detailed, actionable feedback, a capability that does not currently exist in the legal training market’, they added.
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All well and good, but how does it work?
They explained that DepoSim leverages agents that use text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and genAI capabilities to ‘act as witness, opposing counsel, and court reporter’.
The result is, they say, a ‘highly realistic experience that culminates in detailed, objective feedback based on a standardized training rubric’. The simulation can also be repeated for continuous practice, allowing attorneys to target weaknesses, adjust difficulty levels, and select different case types and scenarios.
Abdi Shayesteh, Founder & CEO of AltaClaro, commented: ‘DepoSim is the high-fidelity, high-stakes flight simulator that turns a knowledgeable attorney into a truly competent and practiced advocate.
‘We are thrilled to be partnering with Verbit, the best verbal intelligence company, and to have enlisted some of the world’s most innovative law firms in designing the product. DepoSim is the next step in leveraging AI to enhance essential human-to-human communication skills that are indispensable and cannot be automated. It fills a crucial gap that traditional, costly, and infrequent deposition training models simply cannot address.’
Is this a big deal?
As noted, legal simulators are already starting to spread. But they will become a major growth area as AI embeds deeper into law firms. In time, all commercial lawyers will likely receive a significant part of their early deal and litigation training via simulators.
As Artificial Lawyer has said before: the answer to many of AI’s challenges, is more AI.
However, there is one other aspect here, AltaClaro added that ‘law firms incur substantial expense hiring actors for one-time deposition role-playing’ – don’t tell the legal actors union they’re about to be out of a job!
More here on AltaClaro and also Verbit.
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