Hershey Law is a plaintiff employment firm in Encino, California. The team handles complex wrongful termination, discrimination, and retaliation cases for everyday workers. The clients often do not know what documents they need or what their claims are worth.

When Hershey found Eve, he saw a tool built specifically for employment law, that could evaluate claims, draft demands, and prepare trial strategy inside a single platform.

He rebuilt his firm around it. Then he walked into a courtroom and proved it worked.

The $27.5 Million Verdict

The case involved a Chief Nursing Officer who was wrongfully terminated after exposing patient safety concerns at a large healthcare organization. It was the kind of case that demands precision. Every document matters. Every deposition has to be airtight.

It was also Hershey Law's first case ever taken to trial.

Brennan Hershey used Eve throughout. During trial, he accessed deposition transcripts in real time to prepare impeachment questions on the fly. He tracked the court’s rulings on motions in limine as they came in. He had Eve summarize daily trial briefings and help craft arguments and witness examination questions overnight.

“Every hour that you’re saving during trial is really powerful,” Hershey says. “I was able to use Eve as both a brainstorming tool and a way to direct exactly what I wanted to accomplish much faster than straight manual work.”

The jury returned a $27.5 million verdict, the largest single-plaintiff employment law verdict in the state of California.

Without Eve, ‘I Would Die’

The verdict did not come out of nowhere. Hershey had fully rebuilt how the firm operated. Santiago Nunez, the firm's operations manager, was there for the transformation.

Five and a half years ago, Nunez did intakes on paper. He sat across from potential clients, asked questions, wrote answers by hand, and hoped he captured enough to move a case forward. There were no document evaluations. No automated timelines. No way to know what was missing until it was too late.

“Eve has quite literally flipped the way that we do things,” Nunez said. “She helps us streamline processes that were painstaking, tedious, things that nobody wants to do.

“If you took Eve away tomorrow, I would die. How would I help run this firm? Eve is all I could ask for.”

The firm built custom Eve playbooks for each phase of a case. At intake, Eve evaluates viability and identifies the strongest causes of action from initial documents. Before drafting, another playbook flags missing documents and tells the team exactly what to request. Every claim is substantiated before a demand goes out.

Real-Time Courtroom Support

What sets Hershey Law apart is how Eve performs under pressure. Not just in case preparation. In the courtroom itself.

During trial, Hershey used Eve to pull deposition testimony for impeachment in real time. When a witness contradicted prior testimony, he had the exact transcript citation ready. He used Eve to track which motions in limine the judge had ruled on and how those rulings shaped what evidence could come in. Each night, he fed the day's trial briefings into Eve and used the output to plan the next morning's strategy.

“Without Eve, we would not have been able to be as sharp or as quick in responding to last-minute motions,” Nunez adds. “The bottleneck used to be us. Eve allowed us to better prepare and to streamline the more tedious parts of those situations.”

Trial is where hours matter most. Eve gave Hershey back those hours. He used them to think, not to search.

Stronger Cases from Day One

Hershey Law works with everyday people. Not everyone can sit down and write a detailed timeline of events. Some clients struggle with the paperwork.

“Eve has allowed us to connect more with clients who are a little bit more technologically deficient,” Nunez explains. “You’re connecting with more clients that perhaps didn’t have the ability to provide you what you needed before.”

Better-qualified cases mean better outcomes. They also mean a stronger referral pool. The firm takes on higher volume without sacrificing quality. Eve makes both possible at the same time.

Hershey saw the vision immediately. The firm had been using a tool from a much larger company. It was built around case law research. You asked a question, got citations, then did your own work.

Eve stood out because it was built for employment law.

“Every CRM, every lead management software, every intake software, none of these are geared towards employment matters,” Nunez says. “So there was an AI tool that was geared strictly towards employment law. That’s a no-brainer.”

The Firm Eve Built

Hershey Law rolled Eve out in stages. Hershey and Nunez started first, testing capabilities. Then the intake team. Then pre-litigation. Then litigation. Each team adopted Eve as the platform expanded.

Today, every team at the firm uses Eve. Operations. Intake. Pre-litigation. Litigation. The platform is not a supplement. It is the infrastructure.

Brennan Hershey built a firm that could handle two demands a week. Then he rebuilt it with Eve and took fifty. Then he walked into a courtroom for the first time and walked out with a $27.5 million verdict. The tool did not win the case. The lawyer did. But Eve made sure he was ready.