Lapham Law Firm transforms case work and skyrockets personal injury attorneys’ confidence
“Eve has been a huge help — some of our cases have over 40 medical providers; more than 8,000 pages of medical records, and you're not going to remember every little mention. But sometimes it's those little details that make all the difference — and Eve helps us find them, and remember them.”
Tara King
In the demanding landscape of plaintiff-side legal practice, efficiency, accuracy, and insightful research are non-negotiable. For Lapham Law, the introduction of Eve, with its user-friendly interface and intuitive suggestions, has proven to be a transformative experience, fundamentally enhancing their operations and seamlessly integrating into their daily workflows, even as they continue to roll it out across their firm. Tara King, a litigator at Lapham Law Firm, PC, recently shared her firm's overwhelmingly positive journey with Eve, highlighting how the platform's innovative features have seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows to supercharge research capabilities, enhance the speed and quality of document drafting, and powerfully support their team’s trial preparation and strategy.
Gaining a Competitive Edge
Smaller Plaintiff firms are inundated with information, and reviewing all of it—for example, scrutinizing deposition transcripts to pinpoint inconsistencies in expert witness testimonies—can be particularly grueling. Still, without careful analysis, firms like Lapham Law risk losing a crucial advantage. As Tara puts it:
“Eve has been a huge help — some of our cases have over 40 medical providers; more than 8,000 pages of medical records, and you're not going to remember every little mention. But sometimes it's those little details that make all the difference — and Eve helps us find them, and remember them.”
Tara’s favorite use case so far has been working with Eve to write responses to motions. Eve empowers attorneys to efficiently summarize and highlight arguments and facts from opposing counsel's motions. Tara worked with her Eve support team to create custom response Blueprints —a repeatable “template”—that references relevant case law to craft comprehensive and robust replies in minutes, all critical actions to winning better outcomes for clients.
“When you’re responding to a motion, you have to address everything, and it can be mind-numbing. I have Eve summarize and highlight every argument and fact they've included. Then, I use my custom-made Blueprint that includes relevant subject matter and case law and have Eve get me a draft response in minutes.”
Eve empowers attorneys to efficiently analyze opposing counsel's motions and craft comprehensive responses while serving as a powerful support tool that complements rather than replaces essential legal skills. Tara has freed up the time to focus on case strategy and leverage those key details to win cases.
Adopting Quickly and Confidently
Adopting the new technology has been seamless—even for users who aren’t AI experts. The intelligent suggestions from the platform’s search function have been instrumental in guiding users to discover novel ways to leverage Eve. In addition, Eve’s intuitive chat capabilities and the ability to train Blueprints to create documents in her tone and style have allowed Tara and her team to gain momentum across various cases quickly—a powerful testament to the user-friendly interface.
Writing with Speed and Assurance
Tara praises Eve’s effectiveness in helping kickstart drafting, noting the ease with which she can now generate outlines and first drafts.“Sometimes, as a lawyer, even if you know your case well, you still have writer’s block—having trouble starting to draft. Eve helps you get organized and gets you a first draft or outline.”
Trusting the Results
Initial hesitations about case managers potentially using the tool as a shortcut to learning the nuances of the case were quickly alleviated by Eve’s “trust but verify” capabilities. In particular, Eve directly references documents used to create the AI-generated results, making it easy to check the source and verify with confidence and ease. As Tara shared, “The fact that Eve search takes you to the relevant reference, the source document from which case information is drawn, gives me confidence to encourage paralegals and other staff to use it.”
User-Friendly Integrations
Beyond its core functionalities, Eve’s seamless integrations have further amplified its benefits. The Dropbox integration, in particular, has been a game-changer, dramatically improving workflow by automating uploads and daily updates, making the system remarkably user-friendly. “I don’t have to remember to upload and manage my documents, just click a few buttons and my case is up-to-date, ready for me to work.”Eliminating the need to track down documents and risk getting tangled up in the minutiae of technology, Eve enables Tara’s team to focus on working the case rather than managing her information.
Firm-Wide Adoption and Continued Innovation
Looking ahead, Tara is eager to keep expanding her use cases of Eve, thinking of new ways to streamline her work and increase the time to strategically support her clients, saying, “After I run a task, I get awesome suggestions from Eve—great ideas for search. As I find things that work, I make adjustments. Always learning. It's just been great.” While the attorneys at Lapham Law leverage Eve in diverse ways—for instance, one attorney focuses on searching depositions, reports, and another on medical chronologies—the firm is eager to loop in the support staff to push Eve’s value even further.
