Laffey Bucci D'Andrea Reich & Ryan

Partner Guy D'Andrea's plaintiff-side practice routinely faces massive discovery dumps from defense counsel—described as millions of pages delivered days before depositions—designed to bury a plaintiff's attorney in work. With hard deposition deadlines and no ability to postpone, manual summarization, timeline building, and hot-doc review were too slow and put the firm at a disadvantage against larger defense teams. Confidential case materials also ruled out consumer AI tools.

The firm adopted Thomson Reuters CoCounsel for secure GenAI document summarization, timeline generation, and hot-document identification. D'Andrea uploads discovery and deposition transcripts to CoCounsel, then uses the outputs to prepare for depositions, brief clients, and spot facts that help or hurt the case. The workflow is paired with Westlaw research so document review is guided by the legal issues already identified.

CoCounsel produces near-perfect summaries and contextual timelines of significant events in less than seven minutes, which D'Andrea says saves the firm weeks of work. The firm can take on more contingency cases without increasing overhead, stay sharp across a docket of more than 100 matters, and answer client questions in about 30 seconds. Timeline and transcript summaries also reduce client anxiety during deposition prep by giving survivors a clear, dated event record to work from.

• • Secure, enterprise GenAI can equalize plaintiff's firms against larger defense teams drowning them in discovery.
• • Timeline and summary features deliver dual value: attorney efficiency and better client calm/control before depositions.
• • Contingency practices especially benefit when AI compresses review time that would otherwise force extensions or limit case volume.