Extract from Justin Smith’s article “Introducing Fact Management: A New Architecture for Case Strategy”
When a new case begins, litigators have to quickly get a sense of the key players, rough chronology, and core allegations to start forming their strategy. But then, the waiting game begins. You’re stuck waiting for documents to be collected, processed, and batched for review before you can get into the real details of the case.
Once the documents finally arrive, however, you face a new structural barrier: your strategy and your evidence often exist in two completely different worlds. While the evidence resides in a review platform, your evolving narrative can be captured in static, disconnected tools like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Attempting to connect them requires a manual, high-risk cycle of exporting, copy-pasting, and verifying Bates numbers.
Everlaw’s new Fact Management tool bridges this divide by unifying your discovery and case strategy in a single platform, allowing you to start building your winning argument from the first moments of your case. It transforms Everlaw’s Storybuilder feature into the backbone of your case narrative, allowing you to frame your story before you’ve even reviewed a single document.
