Everlaw for Word Brings Your Evidence Directly to Where You Draft
Building a case from the facts can be rewarding. Building it across disconnected tools, not so much.
Imagine an attorney finds critical Slack messages during document review. Days later, while drafting a brief in MS Word, she breaks her train of thought to jump back into the review platform to find the messages and Bates numbers, then track down the related deposition testimony. Then it’s back to Word, trying (again) to get back into the flow.
This familiar disjointed cycle does more than slow lawyers down. It interrupts the work of building an argument, making it easier to lose the thread between the evidence and why it matters.
Legal professionals have used Everlaw’s Storybuilder for years to overcome these challenges. Storybuilder lets teams centralize case theory, evidence, and the work product in one place, minimizing friction.
But one challenge remained. To use Storybuilder, you had to come to Storybuilder.
Now Storybuilder can come to you. Everlaw just released Everlaw for Word, a direct connection between Storybuilder and attorneys’ most common drafting platform.
This launch is paired with a series of new enhancements for transcript analysis and designations that help litigation teams quickly master the case record without missing critical facts at any stage of litigation – and do it with less context switching, hunting, and manual work.
Draft in Word, Always Connected to the Evidence
Attorneys already do much of their most important legal writing in Word. Everlaw for Word brings the evidence behind that writing into the same workflow, so litigators can draft in the environment they know without losing touch with the record.
With Everlaw for Word, attorneys can:
Type or paste Bates numbers into Word which will automatically link them to source documents in Everlaw
Open cited documents directly from the evidence pane, where they’re easy to track, and
Keep additional evidence ready to cite from the same task pane, rather than switching between Word, PDFs, and separate review windows
The result is a continual connection between an evolving argument and the evidence supporting it.
Ask Questions Across Deposition Transcripts
By the eighth deposition, the case team may remember that someone said something important, but not the exact page and line.
Storybuilder’s Transcript Q&A search helps attorneys interrogate the transcript record directly.
Ask a question in natural language and search across every transcript in the matter at once. Results bring back the relevant testimony with direct page-and-line citations and surrounding context, so teams can quickly understand who said what across multiple depositions.
That makes it easier to find prior admissions and key witness statements without the need to search transcripts one at a time.
It also helps teams compare testimony across witnesses and deposition sessions in a single workspace, and to see how testimony connects across depositions. And it’s now possible to review the exact words and context before relying on them in an outline, motion, or filing.
With Transcript Q&A, litigators can quickly find the right testimony they need and carry it forward as evidence in the case they are building.
Manage Designations Directly in the Transcript
When it comes to putting depositions to work at trial, attorneys traditionally turned back to juggling transcripts and spreadsheets for manual cross referencing.
New designations features in Storybuilder bring these steps into the transcript itself.
By replacing manual tracking with a connected transcript workflow, integrated designations help teams manage complex exchanges with greater control and prepare testimony for the next stage of the case.
The enhancements allow teams to mark testimony directly in the transcript and create affirmative and counter designations by party.
They can also import opposing counsel’s designation spreadsheets across multiple parties and transcripts without retyping them line by line, then review overlapping designations and supporting notes in context before exporting designation charts across transcripts and parties for court-ready work.
Master the Record and Stay Ready for What Comes Next
The latest Storybuilder enhancements help keep the case theory, evidence, testimony, and work product of a matter connected as legal teams work toward a winning outcome.
Everlaw for Word helps attorneys draft where they already work while staying connected to the supporting evidence. Transcript Q&A search helps teams find and understand testimony across the entire transcript record. And integrated designations help teams prepare testimony for court without duplicating their work in spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
Together, these capabilities give litigators a clearer path from case understanding to strategy, motion practice, and trial readiness. The work becomes easier to verify, easier to carry forward, and less likely to get lost between the tools used to build the case.
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